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Fujitsu Ltd., Japan's biggest business computer maker, said it may replace as many as 300,000 hard disk drives after discovering a fault. Its shares declined 4.9 percent, their biggest one-day decline in almost two months
The flaw may affect between 2 percent to 3 percent of the 10 million hard disk drives it produced between September 2000 and September 2001, spokeswoman Emi Watanabe said. The disk drives are found in Fujitsu's own computers, as well as those of Fujitsu customers NEC Corp. and International Business Machines Corp.
Fujitsu declined to say how much it will cost to replace the faulty drives. The finding is a setback for Fujitsu, which is shuttering parts plants in Japan because of slack demand and was suspended from bidding for defense agency business after it was found to have misled the agency on the number of subcontractors used to install a computer network.
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