TP 240 HDD (was: [ltp] Suse 7.1)

chris christensen linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Tue, 27 Mar 2001 07:44:05 -0600


Welcome,
Now if you go on e-bay, you will fnd that you can buy an adapter for about
10 bucks, that will allow you to run that little drive in your desktop. The
hardware profilw will be different, but you should still be able to run the
OS and maybe debug it.

Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "T Dale" <tp260921u@hotmail.com>
To: <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 1:38 AM
Subject: Re: TP 240 HDD (was: [ltp] Suse 7.1)


> My thanks to Chris, who recommended removing the drive before sending in
the
> unit, and to Crispin, who assured me it could and should be done. After a
> talk with an IBM Serv tech who was very helpful, I learned that removing
the
> drive on the TP 240 is about as straightforward as is removing the
battery.
> And he assured me it's perfectly OK to send it in without the drive.
>
> Now I only hope the unit's unexplicable loss of power has nothing to do
with
> either the drive itself or the Linux installation on it.
>
>
>
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