Re: 7.5 gig hard drive found!

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From: Edward Mendelson (edward.mendelson_at_verizon.net)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 21:31:20 EDT

Yep, that's the 10GB TravelStar 40GN. It's the last one on the list at:

http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/tva/tvamod.htm

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Van Tuyl" <wvantuyl_at_mynewroads.com>
Cc: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: 7.5 gig hard drive found!

> O.K., Dad, its what I thought. They gave you a 10 meg drive that prob. had
too
> many bad sectors to make the cut and was re-formatted and labeled as a 7.5
> meg. They can't retail these so they use them as replacement parts. You
got
> an extra 1.5 meg over your 6 meg. Hope the drive is otherwise sound and
lasts
> until your golden years. Not too long then, huh?
>
> Bill
>
> Bruce Markowitz wrote:
>
> > Model
> > IC25N010ATCS04-0
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <pkhoury_at_earthlink.net>
> > To: "Jonathan Berry" <jberry_at_islandnet.com>
> > Cc: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 3:00 PM
> > Subject: Re: 7.5 gig hard drive found!
> >
> > > On Wed, 09 Oct 2002 11:27:48 -0800 Jonathan Berry
<jberry_at_islandnet.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Google and Google Groups and ebay showed no
> > > > hits on
> > > > 07N9602
> > > > nor
> > > > 07N7639
> > > >
> > > > Paul Khoury gave me part of the family
> > > > designation (see below)
> > > > but then clammed up. Curiouser, said Alice.
> > >
> > > If it helps, when I get home, I'll take a picture of the drive itself
(in
> > the
> > > 701 caddy).
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
>

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