8 Jul
2006
8 Jul
'06
10:26 a.m.
> "What I want to do is use a modern 2.5"
IDE drive
in a
> legacy machine."
>
> How modern? What machine? XT or AT class?
2.5" drives are more modern than damn near any
"legacy
machine" :>
Umm, not really. I have several 20mb 2.5" drives in
my possession. I would have to say that the drive
itself qualifies as legacy. Regardless, there's a big
difference between any laptop drive that was around in
the late 80s and the 40gig unit in my inarguably
modern Toshiba laptop.
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8 Jul
8 Jul
10:50 a.m.
Chris M wrote:
The sorts of 2.5" drives one is likely to stumble across
nowadays a GB drives, not MB drives (actually, I have a
source for sub GB 2.5" drives but that's the exception,
not the rule).
My concern is with stuffing a *modern* laptop drive into
a 20 year old machine. Newer drives are shorter (thinner?)
than the older drives and for me to fit one in with the two
5" floppies I need every fraction of an inch that I can get.
It may, in fact, be easier to interface a DoC than to try
to squeeze a real disk in there.
> "What
I want to do is use a modern 2.5" IDE drive
in a
> legacy machine."
>
> How modern? What machine? XT or AT class?
2.5" drives are more modern than damn near
any
"legacy
machine" :>
Umm, not really. I have several 20mb 2.5" drives in
my possession. I would have to say that the drive
itself qualifies as legacy. Regardless, there's a big
difference between any laptop drive that was around in
the late 80s and the 40gig unit in my inarguably
modern Toshiba laptop.
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