From: Rob Bell (rbell1_at_netscape.net)
Date: Tue Jan 11 2000 - 09:53:36 EST
John,
Yes, you can do this with your 770. If you want to use both drives in your
computer at once you will need the IBM 2nd HDD adapter for the Ultrabay. This
costs about $65 and is available from many ThinkPad vendors, such as CDW. If
you buy a bare drive (ie. not a 770-specific drive), you will need a HD shell
- sometimes called a caddy. These are available from Bill Morrow
(www.thinkpads.com) and MegaHaus for around $55 - $65.
The ThinkPad 770 works really well with a second HD. When booting up, it
recognizes it as a second physical HD, just as it should. In addition, the
BIOS is very flexible, allowing you to boot from whatever drive you wish (HD1,
HD2, CD, FDD, etc.). If you run a 'good' ;-) OS on one of the drives, such as
NT, Win2000, or Linix, you can use its boot manager to choose which drive to
boot from without making BIOS changes. For instance, I have one Win98 drive
(HD2) and one NT4 drive (HD1). When I boot, I get the NT boot menu that I
have set up so that I can choose which OS to load. That way I don't have to
go into the BIOS each time I want to boot to the other OS. You can also run
the PC with just the ultrabay HD installed and the main HD removed. Beware
that the BIOS now thinks of the ultrabay HD as HD1 instead of HD2. Those
references are logical, not related to the physical position of the drives in
the computer.
HTH,
Rob
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