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Bowne Conversion 34
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT
The Board of Directors
Western Digital Corporation:
We have audited the consolidated financial statements of Western Digital Corporation and subsidiaries as listed in the
accompanying index. In connection with our audits of the consolidated financial statements, we also have audited the financial
statement schedule as listed in the accompanying index. These consolidated financial statements and the financial statement schedule
are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial
statements and the financial statement schedule based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and
perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit
includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also
includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall
financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position
of Western Digital Corporation and subsidiaries as of June 27, 1998 and July 3, 1999, and the results of their operations and their cash
flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended July 3, 1999, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles.
Also, in our opinion, the related financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial
statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein.
KPMG LLP
Orange County, California
July 21, 1999, except as to Note 11,
which is as of September 29, 1999.