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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