@gsuberland Something similar happened at Sun when a box was released with a new design: the CD drawer on the side. Turned out that if your box was in a rack, the drawer was inaccessible (all software was loaded that way, including the OS, because of bandwidth slowness and expense).
AFAIK it was not recalled, but many were returned. https://ancientelectronics.wordpress.com/tag/sun-microsystems/
@skry to be clear, in this context "recall" means "cause for return to manufacturer" rather than the kind of recall you'd do for a safety issue.