From: William Van Tuyl (wvantuyl_at_mynewroads.com)
Date: Thu Oct 04 2001 - 09:33:55 EDT
The issue is the change of jumper positions in hard drives at ~ .8 - 1 GB.
Check it at http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/table.htm#Travelstar.
Pins 47-48 were open for Master drive and jumpered for Slave drive on the
smaller hard drives. The connections were reversed for the larger drives.
So if your Thinkpad originally came with a smaller drive, the sled jumpers
47-48. A larger drive is then seen as a slave. No Go. So bend 47 and/or
48 out of the way, cut the ribbon cable (some reported doing it with
fingernail clippers) or find another way to not have 47-48 jumpered.
Bill
Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
> I'm trying to install a Fujitsu 1.6GB disk (2724TAM) in my 760E, but the
> machine won't recognize the disk at all (e.g. fdisk from a rescue floppy
> says 'no drive found').
>
> The disk works flawlessly in another laptop, and is formatted with a
> bootable DOS partition.
>
> FWIW, the BIOS is the most recent one for the 760E.
>
> I attached the disk by unpacking the old drive's shell, and attaching
> the disk to the connector.
>
> In an old thread from Jan 2001, I read that sometimes you obviously have
> to cut a few pins of the connector in order to get a hard disk working
> with the drive shell. Is that true, and is this documented somewhere ?
>
> Gregor
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Thu Jan 23 2003 - 09:57:36 EST