[ltp] Replacement hdd in R40e

[Matt Graham]

On Tuesday 15 February 2005 15:40, after a long battle with technology, 
Paul Hornshaw wrote:
> I've got a 30GB hdd in my R40e.  I'm dual-booting Win XP and SuSE 9.2
> and I'm finding it a little cramped.

?  32G disk in my A22p:

paganini:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6              22G   14G  7.5G  65% /
/dev/hda1             7.4G  4.0G  3.4G  55% /windows

...no problem.  Then again, I store most of my crap on my desktop or the 
servers at work, which have lots more disk.

> If I get a bigger hdd and fit it myself, will I invalidate my
> warranty?

Not AFAICT.  Disks are a customer-replaceable unit on the A22p at least, 
according to the PDF I downloaded from IBM.  The fan assembly on the 
A22p, which was not particularly difficult to replace, is not a 
customer-replaceable unit according to the PDF.  I'd care more if the 
warranty on my A22p hadn't expired 1.5 years ago.

> I've got a set of IBM's restore CDs, as the restore 
> partition had duff zips on it, CRC errors, when I tested the restore
> facility the day I bought it so will the new hdd be OK to use these
> CDs on?

Bugger the restore CDs.  Back up your junk with partimage or just plain 
tar.

> And, what would people recommend as a good, quick replacement hdd?

All 2.5" disks have the same form factor, so there's no real difference 
in the procedures for them.

> Can this machine take a 7,200rpm drive?

Dunno.  I guess it'd depend on the drive's power requirements.

> I've downloaded the manual for this machine and the procedure doesn't 
> look too difficult/dangerous, has anyone already done this?

On the A22p, swapping the disk is easier than swapping a PCI card in 
your average desktop machine and takes less time.  YMachineMV but I 
doubt it.

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