inkleput{at}isp.com wrote:

>Alan Beagley  said:
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>Again, that makes sense.  My puzzle over my ThinkPad is that there are 3
>different levels of adapter within the Ultrabay.  And given that the 3rd
>one accepts drives in two different configurations, the intervening
>levels seem odd.  Especially when you consider the PC card port.  It is
>small enough to fit the card itself without additional adapters.
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>That is, the Ultrabay CD adapter is one adapter.  The Ultrabay floppy
>adapter is one adapter.  The hard drive adapter is 3 adapters within
>each other.  Enough to make me ask more questions.  But I have my answer
>now.  Almost all laptops use some sort of adapter that must be added to
>the drive itself.
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>And I think I'm figuring out the advantage of adapters.  To an extent at
>least, it makes room for larger drives to be built and used at a later
>time.
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>Thanks
>
>Jim L, via eCS 1.14 version of OS/2
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Hi Jim,

The problem with your last comment is that the Thinkpad 770 is old 
technology that won't be developed any more. It was the last of the 700 
series prior to the start of the lettered series. R, A, T, X, I etc. 
(although I was almost the same as the old 390, so not really new design).

Developments on the physical hardware interconnects are no longer 
relevant to your TP 770.

I guess the qyestion comes down to, do you want to have a second 
harddisk permanently in your TP770 or only so that you can clone the old 
drive to the new one ? If the latter is the case a cheaper option, 
presuming you also have access to a desktop system (either yours or a 
friends) would be to buy two cheap 2.5" to 3.5" eide adapter cables and 
"hang" the drives off the eide adapter in the desktop and perform the 
clone operation there.

Cheers/2

Ed.

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