[ltp] Hardware Question regarding salvaging HDD's

[Ron Joffe]

On Tuesday 13 April 2004 01:24, Analabha Roy wrote:
>
>  I was wondering if you could suggest a way by which I might be able to
> salvage the HDD and use it as an external, or, suggest a way to connect it
> to the IDE controller of my desktop via a laptop pin-set-desktop pin-set
> adapter (if such a thing exists), afraid my hardware knowledge is next to
> negligible so I'm stuck. Also, if all else fails, is there a way to format
> the hard drive (outside of connecting it to another 770Z, I don't know of
> anybody else who has such an old IBM, even penniless grad students like
> me)?

Check out:

http://meritline.com/usb2-ieee1394-enclosure-hard-drive-external-2-5.html

I have one of these and used an old thinkpad 4 GB drive in one. Works very 
nicely under linux and winders.

Ron