Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "About a third of the way in" is rather vague. Your specifications are as > bad as the ones IBM provides. :-) If you post exact measurements of the > original drive, including outside dimensions as well as the relative > position of the screw holes, someone may be able to help you. I have some > stuff I can look through, for example. But without knowing what to look > for... well, it becomes difficult. :-)
Measuring from the connector end along the length of the drive, the old one has holes at 1-3/4 inches and 2-7/8 inches. The drive I had hoped to replace it with has holes at 9/16 inches and 3-9/16 inches. The drives are 4 inches by 2-34 inches; the old one is 3/4 inch high and the newer one is 1/2 inch high. >From past experience with desktop hard drives, I had expected that the drives would have a standard layout for the mounting holes. I was surprised to discover what appeared to be two incompatible standards, particularly when the specs on these drives didn't give me any reason to expect multiple standards. Upon further examination, I notice that the bracket from the old laptop had six holes along its sides, which would fit to four screws to the Netwinder drive or two screws to one end of the 6 GB drive. This leads me to suspect there are just the two standard layouts for mounting holes in laptop hard drives. What I need is a drive where the mounting holes on the bottom are spaced 1-1/2 inches apart along the length of the drive. For now, anything that gets the box up and running (i.e., anything that can hold at least 2 GB) would be great. Once I'm employed again, I'd like to pick up something larger, so I'd like some way of finding out how a particular drive model's mounting holes are laid out. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99
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