Tue, June 14, 2005 - 01:29 PM

Hi Jim:

Well yes and no to the connectors being the same.

My HP Omnibook had an IBM Drive and now has a Hitachi Drive.

The conectors off the drive were the same.

The "Disk Caddy" does the conversion to fit the drive to the Omnibook.

The drive pinoouts and the "Disk Caddy" pinouts were very different.

When takeing the "Disk Caddy" off the old drive the screws were
very small and take it easy ou you can break the plastic

What model of Laptop have you?

Regards Al


In , on 06/14/2005 
   at 04:08 PM, inkleput{at}isp.com said:



>altownsend{at}dccnet.com said:

>>What they mean by alike is that it will instasll in the laptop

>Does that mean that the physical measurements and connectors are all
>identical?  If so, I could just buy the cheapest one of the 10.  That is,
>I'd have no clue about choosing a good brand or the like.

>>Do you get a BIOS screen on startup?

>That sounds like you believe I have just installed a new drive.  I haven't
>even bought one yet.  Don't know enough to buy smart yet.

>As for BIOS at startup in general, this 770 has one of the most useless
>"BIOS" utilities I've ever seen.  No, simply the worst. 
About all you can
>do related to drives is set which you boot from, HD, CD, LAN.

>>My Hp detected the new larger size on startup

>No new, larger size here.

>Jim L, via eCS 1.14 version of OS/2



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