[ltp] 2nd HDD in Multibay (600x)

[Robert Hajime Lanning]

That is what I got also.  But, if you remove the cover to the HD bay you
will see a blue clip on the inside of the cover.  It has a spacer that slides
under the current HD.  It realy is a clip, you can snap it off and back on.

If you remove it, the 30GB drive fits perfectly.  (just no tech support as
this voids the warranty) (I do not know about the bigger drives.)

I currently have the 30GB drive running Slackware 7.1 for the past year with
no errors/problems.

I will have to suspend and pull the drive to get the part number.
I bought it at Fry's Electronics (special order item.)

---- As written by Boyan:
> 
> Strange, after long... discussions with the ibm technical support for
> Germany it turns out that the ONLY hard disk that fits the 600x ultraslim
> bay is 18Gb part 37L2993, which 'is old and they do not have'. It is hard
> to believe, though after what I read in the mailing list. They have the
> hdd adapter 05K5336 but, they say, the new hard disks (30Gb) for the T
> series won't fit for my tp model.
> 
> Should I ignore these 'recommendations' and order it regardless and can
> someone tell me the part number of his hard disk (20 or more GBs)  that
> fits and is recognized by the 600x model?
> 
> Regards,
> Boyan
> 
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Tom Grydeland wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Boyan wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > slowly and surely my 12Gb Hdd in the 600x 5FG is feeling quite small for
> > > the software I use. I wander if anyone of you have used the option of a
> > > second harddrive in the CDrom bay?
> >
> > I have a 600E and I've upgraded my internal HDD to 20 GB and mounting
> > the original (6.4 GB) drive in a drive adapter in the bay is no problem,
> > at least under Linux. (Haven't tried under Win).
> >
> > I haven't tried hot-swapping or warm-swapping with the DVD drive -- I've
> > rebooted whenever touching the bay.
> >
> > > Would a multibay hdd work under linux or should I better leave linux on
> > > the original hdd and load w98 in the multibay? Or is it just not worth the
> > > price and efforts and should I simply buy an external PCMCIA hdd?
> >
> > I'd say if you're buying a new drive anyway, the price for a drive bay
> > adapter is sufficiently low that it's worth it.
> >
> > > Boyan.
> >
> > --
> > //Tom Grydeland <Tom.Grydeland@phys.uit.no>
> >
> > 	"you cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind." -- H. D. Thoreau
> >
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/* Robert Hajime Lanning                             lanning@lanning.cc
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