[Thinkpad] Re: solid state hard drives.

> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 23:36:25 -0700
> From: Justin Philip <exocomp.usa(a-t)verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Re: more silicon tech flashdrives?
> Hey Andrew, I read your post, so how IS it working ?

It's working well. It's still a 233 Mhz processer, 96 Mb RAM and a 12"
dispaly but now at least it's quiet and should give me better battery
life. It's also cheap and somewhat disposable which is nice.
I just got the 512 Mb card so today's task is to set up the e-mail files
on it.

> Do you think something like that would work on a 701 ?
It definately should work. The Silicon Tech 800 Mb drive that I have is
packaged as an IDE drive so you just pull the existing internal hard
drive and put the solid state drive in it's place.
This is different from a PCMCIA card of Compact Flash card which plug
into the card slot in your computer.

> I've got a Viper 170 I picked
> up really cheap on eBay about 3 months ago, I'm tempted to try it tomorrow.

I think this might actually be a small hard disk. It may be type III
(thicker) so it may not fit in your PC card slot.
The Viper drives used to be the hot ticket to replace the stock 40 Mb
hard drive in a HP Omnibook at least until larger PC flashcards became
available.

> I'm just not certain how you get it to detect as the boot device ~ would that be
> something done in the bios setup.

I have got the 560x to boot to a PC card (with DOS 6.22 on it). I used
the Bios to set the boot order to floppy, PC card then internal hard
drive. Pressing F1 on start up gets me to the set up screen, I would
guess the 701 is similar.

Andrew in Ann Arbor
technology is the answer, what was the question?
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Received on Sat Sep 6 16:25:40 2003