[ltp] TP600 harddrive

[wes schreiner]

linuxtuxhellsinki@spymac.com wrote:

>     Thanks for your answers. I feel now confident enough to buy one
>     from E'bay
>     or some site with used drives. 
>

Even though it is just an old 600, do you really want to trust your data 
to a used drive with unknown history?  Laptop hard drives get bounced 
around a lot more than desktop drives. 

>     I think some 20Gb is enough for me. Now I've
>     about 1.5Gb for windoze and rest 3.5 to Gentoo. Doze just for if I
>     sell
>     machine & buyer want that, I'm not using that (only move some files to
>     /mnt/win/Linuxprogs/ when I need some space in Gentoo ;)
>
>     So, I think my drive is 12.5mm and somebody said that also
>     9mm works ??
>

I just looked at the 600/600E Hardware Maintenance Manual, and it looks 
like you might have a 9mm drive already.  Anyway, even in the 600E one 
can have a 12.5mm drive, it is more modern laptops that cannot accept 
the 12.5mm drive.  9mm is no problem.  I have a 9mm drive in a 600E and 
there is just a little space above it.  When you remove the drive 
(remove drive screw, pull off plastic cover, pull drive out) you will 
see that the drive is attached to a metal shell with four screws.  Just 
remove the screws, slide the drive out of the shell, and transfer the 
shell (don't leave out the plastic insulator under the drive) to your 
new hard drive.  Since the metal shell only covers the bottom and sides 
of the drive it doesn't matter if the drive is 9mm or 12.5 mm high.  You 
will see, it is easy to do.

wes