From: Adam Quantrill (aquantrill_at_scigen.co.uk)
Date: Thu Oct 28 1999 - 12:17:21 EDT
Well it looks like the 12mm travelstar drives will fit the bill, and 4 gigs will probably work. This will be a boon as I can then fit all my OS's (including Linux 4, 5 and 6) onto the one drive instead of having to swap about. Also, the digital camera seems to blow away 100 megs per holiday without really trying. Last holiday I had to start pkzipping the programs I wasn't going to use till I came back....
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Subject: Re: Big drives in a 755C
Author: MIME:Bill Morrow <penzance_at_icanect.net> at INTERNET
Date: 10/28/99 4:08 PM
Daniel..
make that 15mm --> 17mm for the old standard IBM notebook drives.. the 14 and the new 25gig drives are this thickness..
AND
"He who dies with the most toys wins"
i disagree.. should be "He who LIVES with the most toys wins"
and to be honest, from my personal perspective forget the toys and enjoy what blessing life has given you.. :-)
(BTW, i am NOT 'disrespecting' your sig line<G>)
but we're getting philosophical here and that is WAY off topic..
Daniel Basterfield wrote:
> Adam Quantrill wrote:
> >
> > 1) Has anyone out there used > 540MB in the thinkpad 755C? I can't see why it won't work as I have a 2GB IDE disk in my docking station, and that works OK. Is there a BIOS limit, and if so is it going to be on capacity or cylinders?
>
> The 810MB (790-ish formatted) was a standard option on 755s. I use one > on my 750. We used to use OEM 1GB+ drives on our 755's at work. I don't
> believe there were any problems regarding BIOS limitations. Check you're > on the latest BIOS.
>
> >
> > 2) Is the Travelstar going to fit directly into my 755C caddies as a swap for a 540MB disk and work electrically with the adaptor cable?
> >
>
> Provided it's a standard 15mm high 2.5" IDE drive, I see no reason why > it should not. The caddies don't look like they would take a 17mm high > drive, but I could be wrong.
>
> Dan.
>
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