re Compatibility of third party hard disks and TP701

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From: J. Starkey (jstarkey_at_julian.uwo.ca)
Date: Thu May 29 1997 - 13:04:58 EDT

Recently my ThinkPad 701 cs stopped accessing the hard drive - it just did
not recognize the hard drive even if booted from a floppy. I sent it to
EasyServ who suggested that the third party hard disk, a 1.08 gb from
Microsense, had "blown" the system board - which they repaired. The 701
was only meant to handle up to a 720 mb disk from IBM!

Is this reasonable? Have others had similar disastrous compatibility
problems?

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John Starkey, Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3B7
tel: (519) 661 3185 fax: (519) 661 3198 e-mail: jstarkey_at_julian.uwo.ca

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