[ltp] new hard drive for a thinkpad 770z

[Jim Harvey]

Rob Mayoff wrote:
> +---------- On Jul 18, Mark Alexander Wotton said:
> 
>>I've just bought a thinkpad 770z minus a hard drive off ebay, thinking
>>that I could use the drive from my current laptop, a Fujitsu 20gb. On
>>disassembling the 770z, however, I couldn't find anywhere to plug in a
>>standard laptop drive. Do I need some kind of hard-drive adaptor, or are
>>Thinkpad hard drives simply different?
> 
> 
> You need a 770 hard drive shell. IBM doesn't sell them without hard
> drives inside, AFAIK. You might find one used (I did once). Or you could
> see if IBM still sells 770 drive upgrades. The largest drive IBM ever
> sold for the 770 series was 14.1 GB, so you probably just want to get
> the cheapest drive they sell, and put your 20 GB drive in its shell.
> 
> Note that the 770 "2nd HDD Adapter" does not come with a drive shell.
> At least, mine didn't.  The adapter requires a drive in a shell, and
> fits in the Ultrabay.

The 2nd HDD adaptor does however, also accept drives from a model 760, which 
increases your odds of finding a drive tub.
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  Jim Harvey - WB8NBS/9 - Naperville, Illinois - Linux on a Thinkpad 770Z