RE: New TP600 -- hard disk noise (& other issues)

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From: Michael Geary (mg_at_mg.to)
Date: Tue Oct 06 1998 - 02:17:42 EDT


> From: Gerald C. Delsescaux [mailto:jd_at_eighthwave.com]
>
> The ThinkPad (600) is a 2645-51U, dated 08/98 on the case, I believe. The
> drive was the standard one that IBM includes: a 4gig Hitachi
> model DK227A-41
> (Cyl 7944 Heads 16, Sec 63).

Following up late on this one... I think each kind of hard drive has its own
characteristic sounds. My 2645-51U doesn't make the kind of "thonk" sounds
you describe, but it had an IBM 4Gb drive in it (and now has an IBM 6.4Gb).
OTOH, my Libretto 50 *does* make sounds something like you describe, and it
has a Hitachi DK237A-32 drive that I installed in it. That drive's been
running reliably for several months now.

So if anyone said, "My ThinkPad 600 doesn't sound like yours", well, it may
just be because of a different model of drive.


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