Re: [Thinkpad] Hard drive interface specs A30p

I'll sell you one of those!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Geary" <Mike@Geary.com>
To: "'Bruce Markowitz'" <scosgt@worldnet.att.net>; "'David Reid'"
<dwreid@hiwaay.net>; <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 10:59 PM
Subject: RE: [Thinkpad] Hard drive interface specs A30p

> Yup. You can put *any* 2.5" notebook drive in an A30p (except for the
> antique 17mm drives, and you won't find any of those for sale today).
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org
> > [mailto:thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Markowitz
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 7:46 PM
> > To: David Reid; thinkpad@stderr.org
> > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Hard drive interface specs A30p
> >
> > Anything you can stuff into the hole will work. The specs
> > don't matter.
> > They are all the same - IDE (except for the ones that are
> > SCSI of course).
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Reid" <dwreid@hiwaay.net>
> > To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 10:40 PM
> > Subject: [Thinkpad] Hard drive interface specs A30p
> >
> >
> > > Ok, with all this hubub about hdd's, and after looking at
> > Zipzoomfly and
> > > some others, I see some the drives mentioned, 100gb etc. I also see
> > > ATA-5's, ATA-100's Ultra ATA-100's etc, but in all the
> > documentation I've
> > > downloaded from IBM for my A30p, I can't for the life of me find the
> > > necessary interface information needed to order a drive.
> > >
> > > I bought a 100gb seagate several months ago from CompUSA
> > but either by
> > > calling customer support or finding reference on their
> > website, the drive
> > > was listed as working in the A30p, yet Zipzoomfly and
> > others don't provide
> > > this 'cross referencing'.
> > >
> > > So how does one know to order such a drive without any
> > "fit" list? Even
> > > when I called Zipzoomfly, their tech support stated they
> > didn't know what
> > > notebook a given drive would fit.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
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