Subject: Re: Using a laptop hard drive
To: Andy Ruhl , <port-cobalt@netbsd.org>
From: Lucien Wells <lwells@bigpond.net.au>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 07/05/2004 00:18:49
> But is there anything else I need to know?

Not really. You might need a 2.5 --> 3.5 mounting bracket too.


> Do all laptop hard drives have the same IDE interface so that this
> converter will work on every one?

All the IDE ones.

Lucien.
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Lucien Wells, lwells@bigpond.net.au on 5/07/2004


On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 07:16:38 -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> I saw elswehwere a link to someone using a laptop hard drive in a
> cobalt qube. This is obviously a pretty cool idea because of
> limited space.
>
> Is there somewhere I can read more about this? I did some searching
> on Ebay and found some adpaters for laptop hard drives to run in
> place of a regular IDE hard drive in a workstation, it included the
> IDE interface adapter basically. But is there anything else I need
> to know? Do all laptop hard drives have the same IDE interface so
> that this converter will work on every one?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Andy