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29 Jan 2002

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  On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, David Woyciesjes wrote:

 I wonder, what kind/size drive is in there? Can it be upgraded?  
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 From: 	Doc

   AFAIK, standard 2.5" IDE.  John ain't shy about disassembling his
 toys, and the last resort idea was to pull the hdd, put it in a
 desktop, install Linux, and put it back, so I bet it's IDE.

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 From: 	David Woyciesjes

 Hmmm, Probably could stick it into my Multia, which could run NT from a
 SCSI drive, stick stuff on that way. Hey, if it's a standard 2.5" IDE
 (a.k.a. laptop) drive, what's stopping us from sticking in something
 bigger capacity? I can't remember what the HDD size limit is in DOS 5.0...

 ---------- Well, I got curious and cracked mine open...

According to the User's Guide, it is IDE. And it is 2.5" size. Except one
neat difference. To take care of the height restriction inside the case,
they moved the drive controller board to _behind_ the drive, taken out from
under it...So now it's physical size is 2.75" x 0.375"(3/8") x 6".
Looks
like just a special board, on a standard drive case. BTW, it's a JVC Model
JDF2042M10-1. I'll have to Google that later, and see if I can find more
info...

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