There's always the SATA mod for the T43: http://theboardroom.info/sata_mod.htm Ironically enough, "These laptops (as well as the X41/X41T) were originally designed for SATA drives. However, due to limited availability and high prices of SATA drives at that time, their motherboards received an extra SATA-PATA bridge chip, to adapt them to the cheaper and widely availabe PATA drives."
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:53 PM, STeve Andre' <[email protected]> wrote: > If you have use for IDE disks for laptops, you may want to get > spares soon. I am hearing, from several friends I trust, that > IDE disk manufacture is ramping down. In comparison $138 > would get you a 1T sata disk. > > *sigh* > > Think of all the thinkpads out there which are still usefull > but may not have disks. > > Sniff. > > -STeve Andre' > > > On 11/29/12 14:39, Steve Carter wrote: > >> Large PATA/EIDE drive for T43 >> ============================= >> >> Western Digital 320 GB Scorpio Blue >> ATA-100, 5400 RPM, 8MB Cache >> Notebook HD - model# WD3200BEVE >> I bought one (for my T43p) on Amazon. >> They are now getting harder to find, >> so prices have crept upwards. >> Presently $138 on Amazon, >> and about half that on eBay. >> >> Even though this is a 5400 RPM drive, >> its sustained transfer rate matches >> its ATA-100 (PATA) interface. >> ______________________________**____ >> On 11/29/12, someone wrote, in part: >> >>> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 12 >>> From: "Paul A. Pennington" <[email protected]> >>> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Use thumb drive for ram? >>> >>> Aryeh said: >>> < It seems that 320GB 2.5" hard disk drives with >>> < PATA interfaces are still made by Western Digital. >>> >>> Do you have a link to those? >>> The only ones I could find were 3.5". >>> >>> Paul Pennington >>> Augusta, Georgia >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> > ______________________________**_________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/thinkpad<http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad> > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
