are there hard drives for laptops that are smaller than the 2.5"
drives?
Yes.
I have a laptop that takes an IDE hdd, but the space
is about
3/4 of an inch to small to even fit a 2.5" drive. I vaguely recall
seeing something about 1.8" drives? Am I hallucinating here or does such
a creature exist?
I have never seen a 1.8" drive that wasn't embedded in a PCMCIA card. I
do have several 1.3" "Kitty Hawk" drives - 44=pin high-density IDE plug,
20Mb, but they did make a 40Mb version. My Kitty Hawk is currently attached
to a C-64.
-ethan