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INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT
The Board of Directors
Western Digital Corporation:
We have audited the consolidated Ñnancial statements of Western Digital Corporation and subsidiaries as
listed in the accompanying index. In connection with our audits of the consolidated Ñnancial statements, we
also have audited the Ñnancial statement schedule as listed in the accompanying index. These consolidated
Ñnancial statements and the Ñnancial statement schedule are the responsibility of the Company's manage-
ment. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated Ñnancial statements and the Ñnancial
statement schedule based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States.
Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the
Ñnancial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence
supporting the amounts and disclosures in the Ñnancial statements. An audit also includes assessing the
accounting principles used and signiÑcant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall
Ñnancial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the consolidated Ñnancial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material
respects, the Ñnancial position of Western Digital Corporation and subsidiaries as of June 30, 2000 and
June 29, 2001, and the results of their operations and their cash Öows for each of the years in the three-year
period ended June 29, 2001, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.
Also, in our opinion, the related Ñnancial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic
consolidated Ñnancial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set
forth therein.
As discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated Ñnancial statements, the Company changed its method of
revenue recognition with respect to certain sales commencing on July 1, 2000.
KPMG LLP
Orange County, California
July 25, 2001, except as to Notes 4 and 10,
which are as of September 21, 2001
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