[Thinkpad] Re: Solid State 560x

Liz Gerard wrote:
> Andrew in Ann Arbor wrote:
>
>> I'm thinking the solid state 560x (Win98 Lite) is going to be the low
>> power portable so I'm trying to make it as basic and simple as possible.
>
> Both you and Vicki have mentioned the solid state 560x, which I presume
> is to do with the motherboard.
>
> As we're thinking of getting a 128mb chip, can you advise me which
> models are solid state? Mine's a 2640-700.
>
> Liz (confused)

Liz
I think the 128 Mb chip works with any 560x running Win2k or with one
running Win98 if you tweak the OS.

I'm afraid I'm guilty of coining the "solid state" term, it's not an
official IBM designation.

In my case the OS and applications are on the internal flash drive and
the data is on a CF card plugged into one of the slots. The idea is when
I want to switch computers I swap the card with all the current data so
i don't have to think about synchronizing the files on several
computers. I also plug the data card into my desktop and back up the
whole card to my desktop.

My 560x is a 2640-70U with the original (loud) hard drive removed and
replaced with an 800 Mb IDE flash drive. The IDE flash drive looks sort
of like this one
<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=51072&item=4128897189&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW>
and fits right in where your stock drive does. I had to make a wooden
spacer for mine since the flash drive was thinner than the stock drive.
I got my drive from E-bay for around $50, you might e-mail Kelley
<webuyscrap@hotmail.com> and see if she has any more.

The other option is to use an adapter to plug a standard Compact Flash
card in place of your hard drive as Vicky has done.

Either method will work, I chose the flash drive because I found cheaper
than the equivalent CF card. If you find a good deal on a big CF card
than that might be the way to go. I'd expect the CF-IDE adapter would
cost about $30.

I am curious about one thing, we know you can boot the 560x from a PC
card instead of the hard disk, do you need an internal drive present or
will it fail the startup test if there is no internal drive.
I've booted from the PC card with a dead (or badly scrambled) internal
drive but don't know if it would work with no drive.

-- 
Andrew (we don't need no steenkin' hard disk) in Ann Arbor
technology is the answer, what was the question?
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