I do not remember the details, or the exact time period, but yes, there was
an issue with Fujitsu desktop IDE drives failing a few years back.

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>We have a bunch of computers all with 10GB IDE Fujitsu hard disks.  Over
>the past few months the hard disks have started to fail.  We can't see the
>hard disk in the BIOS and it doesn't matter what we do we cannot make it
>appear.  The only way we have been able to rectify our hard disk failures
>is by replacing them with new disks.  At first I thought this was just a
>minor fault as it only happened to 5 computers, I now have over 30
>computers with dead hard disks.  Is there any known fault with Fujitsu IDE
>hard disks, in particular the 10GB model?  Is there a way we can make
>these apparent 10GB hard disks work again so that we don't have to buy new
>ones?
>Grant.

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