[ltp] Hardware Question regarding salvaging HDD's

[Ted Potter]

here is the product:

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On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 08:55, Jim Hughes wrote:
> As far as I know I haven't seen anything similiar to that for a pci slot.  I 
> have seen and used a adapter that connects to the laptop hdd and then 
> connects to the ide cable.  You can go to pricewatch.com and pick one up for 
> around 5 bucks and that is including shipping.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 13 April 2004 04:33, Ted Potter wrote:
> > At the risk of sounding stupid, I think they make a card that allows a
> > laptop hardrive to be installed as an standard ide hard drive in a
> > desktop. It is a pci card with a converter that plugs in to the smaller
> > laptop hard drive connector.
> >
> > here in the US these devices are carried by CompUsa. A google of these
> > devices shows a couple of places to get them.
> >
> > Now, shoot me down. There must be something I don't understand.
> >
> > hth
> >
> > Ted
> >
> > On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 22:24, Analabha Roy wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > >  I apologize in advance as this question is not directly related to
> > > running Linux on Thinkpads, but I'm utterly lost and have nowhere to turn
> > > to for information/guidance, so any advice would be appreciated tenfold.
> > >
> > >
> > >   I had an IBM Thinkpad 770Z in which I had an XP/Linux-mdk-9.1 dual boot
> > > and everything was fine, until one day it wouldn't boot anymore (not even
> > > the BIOS or anything). I took it to a shop & they ran a diagnostic & said
> > > that the motherboard was damaged beyond repair. Since the peripherals
> > > were working fine, I was thinking of maybe salvaging my HDD and using it
> > > as a portable (it's an IBM Travelstar). I thought that maybe if I got a
> > > standard USB hard drive casing (with the IDE-usb adapter in it) and
> > > connect the hard drive and put it in the casing, I might be able to mount
> > > it in my desktop via USB and use it as a 14.1 gig portable drive, after I
> > > ghosted all my Linux partitions and recovered the data using "dd" in
> > > Linux or something (I have a written copy of my partition table).
> > > Unfortunately, all standard hard drive casings seem to be 12mm thick, and
> > > the travelstar is 15mm thick, so it won't fit. In addition, the IDE port
> > > in the adapter is female, & so is the IDE port in the Hard Drive (& they
> > > don't have the same # of pins). Accoding to the IBM tech people, there
> > > are no casings or adapters in which travelstars may fit.
> > >
> > >  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)?
> > >
> > >
> > >   Please let me know if any of the above is possible.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Analabha Roy
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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