[ltp] [OT]: New HDD on IBM R51

[Alex Deucher]

On 6/13/06, Pasquale Imbemba <p.imbemba@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> this is slightly OT because it is OS independent:
>
> I own an IBM R51 with 30 Gbyte HDD on which I have dual boot
> OpenSuSE/XP.
> My warranty is going to extinguish in two months and I was considering
> upgrading my HDD a little. I would like to have at least 80 GByte in
> order to work better with the two OSes.
>
> I was looking at the original IBM upgrading part (IBM 09N4273 ) but
> found prices to be horribly high here in Europe (Italy, Germany).
> I never removed my HDD drive before, but from the "Access IBM" flash
> movie I saw that the HDD has some special (?) black connector at one
> end. What's that?
> Can I use any 80 GB 2.5" IDE/EIDE drive with 5400 RPM or should I better
> stick to IBM "original part"?

Any IDE disk should be fine.  I've swapped lots of disks in and out of
my thinkpads.

Alex

>
> Cheers
> Pasquale
>
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