From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Tue Apr 17 2001 - 02:19:04 EDT
Marvin..
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marvin Nakayama" <marvin_at_homer.njit.edu>
To: <THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 9:37 PM
Subject: external hd
> I have a 770, and I want to buy hard drive that
> I can hook up externally through a PCMCIA or
> CardBus card. Does anyone have any suggestions
> on brands that I might look into? I have a
> UltraSCSI CardBus card and Firewire (IEEE 1394)
> CardBus card, so I might be interested
> in external SCSI or Firewire drives.
>
why not find a 2nd HDD adapter for the 770..??
> Also, I seem to remember seeing once a contraption
> that allowed you to convert a desktop internal hd
> into an external drive. It was basically some kind
> of a shell that you slipped the internal drive into.
> Unfortunately, I don't remember the manufacturer or
> the name of the product. Can anyone help me out?
> If anyone has used one of these things, I'd love
> to hear how well it works.
>
those are adapters..
change the 2.5mm pin spacing to the 2mm found on a notebook HDD..
also supply 5v power to the drive..
those things work very well..
Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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