Jeffrey Race scribbled on Monday, November 09, 2009 8:53 AM:

> I'm trying to get bits and pieces for a T43
> but having difficulty figuring out what's
> available.  Ideas please . . .
> 
> Floppy Disk Drive: I want to be able to
> boot from DOS disks but I can find no
> FDD which would install vice the DVD drive
> or via external connector (as does the 600X's)
> What to do?

Any USB floppy drive will work just fine and the BIOS can easily be set to
BOOT from it. I can't recall there ever being an internal floppy drive
available in the Ultrabay Slim form factor.
 
> Drive tray: I want to mirror the drive when
> I get it fully configured with WXP and OS/2
> (reborn as eCS).   The 600X has a nifty
> drive tray,   How can one do this with the
> T43 series?

ThinkPad 2nd Hard Drive Adapter for Ultrabay Slim: "The ThinkPad 2nd Hard
Drive Adapter for Ultrabay Slim gives you maximum storage flexibility with
your ThinkPad R50, R50p, R51, R52, T40, T40p, T41, T41p, T42, T42p, T43, and
T43p Series systems. This adapter lets you add a second HD to the Ultrabay
Slim bay of your ThinkPad R50, R50p, R51, R52, T40, T40p, T41, T41p, T42,
T42p, T43, and T43P Series system. With a second HD in your Ultrabay Slim
bay, you have a quick way to store and back up critical data."

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-46455

Part number: 62P4554; FRU: 62P4553

James

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