From: jbrush_at_aros.net
Date: Sun Sep 03 2000 - 20:08:27 EDT
In <39B2DFE6.3CC73B13_at_theriver.com>, on 09/03/00 at 06:08 PM,
James Mckenzie <os2support_at_theriver.com> said:
>Which model 760E do you have? There is a "thin" model and it will accept
>hard drives (with caddy) up to 12.5 mm high (you probably do not need to
>worry about this) and a "thick" model which will accept both the CD and a
>hard drive up to 17mm high. However, you are "stuck" with a maximum hard
>drive size of 6.4GB. You had better hurry as these are not being
>manufactured any more, thus are becoming harder and harder to find.
I have the thin, older one that cannot accept the CD player. The device is
9546 U4A and the S/N is 78 (yikes!)
I would be ecstatic to get a four or six gig drive. That would prove to be
all I would need for a laptop. There are several places that have 4 gigs
for 'laptops' that are about $120 or so which I could do. I doubt I would
pay several hundred dollars for a laptop that I only paid $200 for in the
first place :-)
When I look under the keyboard, I see no way for a CD player to go in
place of the floppy. I know mine is not the thick machine that will accept
them, but how does it ever fit in the width department?? Battery smaller?
>Most hard drives for laptops manufactured today are based on a "2 and
>1/2" form factor and are Enhanced IDE (EIDE). The problem is that IBMs
>early hard drives had the 'drive select' pins in the reverse order of
>hard drives manufactured today.
Uh, this sounds bad for my older 760E. How can I verify this? I have been
around the IBM site, but I haven't seen anything about this interesting
tidbit.
>BTW, I do have a 2.1 GB Extreme drive for sale. Please contact me for
>the particulars.
Please email me with what you have. I would like to get bigger, but I am
not gonna go broke doing it.
Thanks to all for the advice.
Regards from Utah,
John
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