-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Generally speaking the disks are compatible, you mostly need to watch the physical size of the disk, some are a bit thicker than others and won't fit. Usually this is only much older disks, so you should be fine if you go with a new one.
Kevin T. Bryan wrote: > Speaking of failing hard drives, I have an old thinkpad T23 that has started > to lock up randomly. Looking at the logs shows disk I/O errors, so I'm > thinking that the drive is starting to go bad. > > Now, for my desktop machines, I always just buy parts separately, and I know > how to track down compatability issues? I've never really done any laptop > hardware maintenance except upgrading RAM. Are laptop hard drives generally > compatiable? IBM/Lenovo doesn't even keep information on the T23's > compatibility with their current product selection, so I'm not sure how to > guarantee that the laptop will be able to fit and read/write to some random > vendor's "hard drive for mobile devices." > > Does anyone have experience with this? > > BTW, the laptop is happily running Debian sarge. I'm planning to use g4u to > ghost the drive (if I can get through the entire disk without fatal disk > errors) to one of my desktop machines so that I can restore it to the new > drive. If anyone knows a better option, I'd love to listen to the voice of > experience. :-) > > ---Tom > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDEa6vhW0MDKygik8RAtJOAJwImGk0kMkcsmkrfrP2f7pLNzC3ywCfQPPj 8ZIpSpzzh0LYPXKLwlWpEUI= =eOfq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
