Re: [Thinkpad] Travelstar E and Bigger drives

FWIW, and from recent experience, hitachi is doing a better
job than the ibm storage systems division did..
so it can be said the new hitachi travelstar is better than
the older ibm travelstar..
hitachi BETTER make a go of this purchase as they paid
billions for the ibm HDD business..

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Cordially,
Bill Morrow
(from NetFinity Server)
web page: http://www.thinkpads.com
bill@thinkpads.com
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From: "Victoria" <victoria_j_k_lamburn@yahoo.co.uk>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 7:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Travelstar E and Bigger drives

> Hiya David,
>
> I'm not putting it inside the machine, and it's a TP 560,
not the later E
> variant. The Thinkpad internally has a 2.1gb disk, with
BIOS 1.11. I am
> currently using Windows 95 but may put 98SE on soon.
>
> I tried using the Hitachi 20gb one in the external
Travelstar case (which
> has an 8gb one originally) and connects to the PCMCIA
interface, but indeed
> it could be the machine does not like the Hitachi brand
inside of it.
>
> Is it possible to use the 20gb one internally as I thought
there was a limit
> internally, though you mention IBM's Drive Manager, is
that this here:
>
> http://www.chicorporation.com/support/IBM.html#diskmgr2k
>
> (if that link doesn't work, it's about 2/3rds the way
down) I downloaded
> the Windows diskette version (1600k apx.) to put on a
bootable disk. If I
> place the 20gb drive into the Thinkpad (is this difficult
to do in itself?)
> and use this programme, will Windows 95/98 be able to
install on the 2gb or
> whatever partition you describe and create a partition
that Win 95/98 can
> access which is the size of the remaining capacity?
>
> I generally thought that getting a Hitachi drive would be
almost as good as
> the IBM one, as they seem to co-operate on hard disk
stuff. (The Travelstar
> support is on Hitachi's site now).
>
> Many thanks anyway!
> Vicky.
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