From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Mon Jan 15 2001 - 00:44:59 EST
this is not entirely true..
all later notebook drives have the same pinout..
besides, on the 701, the addressing pins are not covered..
and any 1gig or larger drive does not need a shorting jumper to address the
drive, since all newer drives are automatically the master drive..
SO, for a 701, just put a 6.4gig or smaller drive in the shell and then into
the 701 and boot from the floppy and run FDISK and then FORMAT..
then boot from the new drive in the 701.. :-)
assuming the drive that you have will work in the 701 at all...
toshiba drives have a problem, but the fujitsu drives have not had the same
problem and IBM drives seem to run just fine..
Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Imre Kiraly" <kiralyi_at_almos.vein.hu>
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 12:29 AM
Subject: Thinkpad 701 - Harddisk replacement/3 :)))
> Clear answer! I have just received this.Yes, I tried to use the
> Fujitsu HD with the original IBM shell... So, there is no hope
> without a suitable shell?
>
> >I've run into that problem with putting a larger drive
> >into my TP760 EL. Drives from different makers do not
> >use the same pinout for the connector. For instance,
> >Toshiba is different than IBM as far as master/slave
> >and CS pins. Newer IBM drives are not the same as
> >older ones. You would think there would be a
> >standard...
> >The sellers of hard drive upgrades get around this by
> >making the connections in the shell the drive plugs
> >into match the drive connections to the laptop. In
> >other words, the shell is matched to the drive.
> >If you are trying to use the same mounting shell with
> >a different drive it won't work unless the drives have
> >identical pin connections. On my TP760 the hard drive
> >mounting shells are not even the same for the regular
> >drive bay and the ultra bay and not interchangable.
> >Since I usually can't tell how the drive or the shell
> >connector is wired, I got around this problem by
> >collecting several different mounting shells from
> >different places and then trying them until I found
> >one that works. I got one from a guy selling than on
> >ebay that fits a 6Gb drive. Found an older one at the
> >swap meet for smaller drives and of course still have
> >the original one for 820Mb drives.
> >Of course on laptops that don't use a mounting shell,
> >such as a Toshiba where the drive plugs in directly,
> >this method won't work.
> >You also want to make sure that the laptop's BIOS is
> >updated to the latest version since upgrades usually
> >add the ability to use larger drives. If you had a
> >360Mb drive originally there is a good chance that it
> >won't be able to recognize any drive bigger than 528Mb
> >without being upgraded, then you maybe limited to
> >2.1Gb per partition.
> >
>
>
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