According to Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Another possibility I thought of is semi-emulating the ThinkPad 860. > > There's 4.3G SCSI *laptop* HDDs now, apparently. And we all know SCSI > > beats IDE any day. Sooo.. well.. you know where I'm going. (The ThinkPad > > 860 (603/166) has a 2x SCSI2 CD-ROM and a 2.5G SCSI2 HDD.) > > Are you aware of pricing for 2.5" SCSI HDs? If I want a new replacement for > the > dead 540 MB disk in my DEC UDB, it would cost about 250 EUR (fortunately a > friend had a spare 340 MB disk lying around). Not to mention pricing for > multi-GB > disks.
I have seen a vendor selling 2.5" SCSI HD for a more reasonable price It appears that those were IDE HD with IDE<->SCSI micro-converter put on it (they did not hide this fact). 3.2GB cost $349. See <http://www.powerbook1.com/pbharddrives.html#scsi> Hope this helps. Hub
