From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Tue Jan 19 1999 - 11:18:19 EST
The cable select is different on older IBM drives than on large IBM and
Toshiba 2.5" drives.
peter machule wrote:
>
> Actually it's not ;-{
>
> We have two identical ones here.
> They work wonderfully with our older IBM 2.5 inch HD's.
> The other week I put on a 3Gs and a 5Gs 3.1GB and 5.1 GB respectively.
> The drives were very unhappy and made weird noises .
> We tried various desktops and had the same result.
> The autodetect Bios on these desktops could NOT recoqnize the drives.
>
> Before any one asks we did this on the secondary IDE channel and for fun
> even jumpered the drives as slave on attempt number 3.
> Drives work fine in a Panasonic laptop (old) and a Toshiba laptops (even older ).
>
> If anyone has a clue, I would be happy to hear it.
> ..peter..
>
> BTW I have available one spare New
> Travelstar 5GS 5.1GB UltraDMA 2.5-Inch Notebook EIDE Disk Drive by IBM
> $199 including shipping
>
> IBM DPLA-25120 17MM 5.1GB
>
> Why the hell does IBM use the same Part number ie 5GS , for totally differnt sizes of HD's ???
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Randal Whittle <rwhittle_at_usa.net>
> To: Mel Del Gallo <twistdd_at_jps.net>; TP List <tp750_at_cs.utk.edu>
> Date: Monday, January 18, 1999 11:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Laptop->desktop drive adapter source wanted
>
> >At 05:36 PM 1/18/99 -0800, you wrote:
> >>Excuse me for butting in but do I understand that you can get an adapter
> >>that will
> >>run your Thinkpad HD on a desktop? How is the HD powered?
> >
> > The adapter that converts the tiny-sized IDE interface into a
> >desktop-sized IDE also breaks off the power pins into a standard power plug.
> >
> > Its not rocket science--its just a converter.
> >
> >- Randy Whittle
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