From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 21 5:47: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ponzi.oit.umass.edu (mailhub.oit.umass.edu [128.119.166.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6421D37B916 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 05:47:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gpav@som.umass.edu) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by ponzi.oit.umass.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #38130) id <0FY100L01SUC23@ponzi.oit.umass.edu> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 08:47:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emily.oit.umass.edu (emily.oit.umass.edu [128.119.166.5]) by ponzi.oit.umass.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #38130) with ESMTP id <0FY100K8USUCB2@ponzi.oit.umass.edu> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 08:47:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (gp@localhost) by emily.oit.umass.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA04403 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 08:47:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 08:47:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Pavelcak Subject: Laptop Hard Drives X-Sender: gp@emily.oit.umass.edu To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Authentication-warning: emily.oit.umass.edu: gp owned process doing -bs Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello all. I'm looking for input on purchasing a laptop hard drive. My AST Ascentia J20 sports an 810MB ibm hard drive. I'm thinking about getting a larger drive so I don't have to worry about housecleaning so much, but I have a couple of questions. Are laptop hard drives any more proprietary than regular drives? Is a new drive likely to just work as long as I get the dimensions right? I also saw a parenthetical note next to an ad for an ibm 810 MB drive saying it's good for desktops too. Is it possible to use a laptop drive in a desktop? I looked at my laptop hard drive once before, and it seemed to me that the power supply cord was somehow incorporated into the ribbon cable. It would be great if I could just pop the new drive into my desktop and dump/restore FreeBSD to it. That would be by far the easiest way to get the configuration I've developed over the years up and running on my old laptop. Any input, pointers to reading, benefit of your experience greatly appreciated. Take care. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message