From: Bill Morrow (marrow_at_adelphia.net)
Date: Tue Sep 17 2002 - 14:41:28 EDT
closest i can find is a DYLA 27900 listed at 7.9gigs and it is a 17mm thick
HDD..
very old now..
and i never ever had one of those..
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----- Original Message -----
From: "STeve Andre'" <andres_at_msu.edu>
To: "Bruce Markowitz" <scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net>; "Michael Geary"
<Mike_at_Geary.com>; "Bill Morrow" <marrow_at_adelphia.net>
Cc: "ThinkPad List" <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: FS: 20GB Travelstar Drives
You know, I've heard someone else say that they had a 7.5G disk,
and I was puzzled by that. When/if you can, could you look at
the disk and post the part number? I'm curious about this. Thanks!
--STeve Andre' (Grex staff)
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 02:27 pm, Bruce Markowitz wrote:
> ABSOLUTELY NOT
> It is a 7.5 gig, NOT the old 770ED 8 gig.
> It has been mentioned also that it *might* work in a 760 series.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Geary" <Mike_at_Geary.com>
> To: "Bruce Markowitz" <scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net>; "Bill Morrow"
> <marrow_at_adelphia.net>
> Cc: "ThinkPad List" <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 2:16 PM
> Subject: RE: FS: 20GB Travelstar Drives
>
> > > > From: Bill Morrow
> > > > AFAIK there is NO 7.5Gig travelstar drive.. period..
> > >
> > > From: Bruce Markowitz
> > > YES THERE IS
> > > I got one on a warranty exchange from EasyServ
> >
> > Could we be running into the old "binary gigabyte vs. decimal gigabyte"
> > problem here?
> >
> > 7.5 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 = 8,053,063,680
> >
> > There's your 7.5Gb drive, or your 8Gb drive, you pick. :-)
> >
> > -Mike
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