| Subject: Re: Does an XL take a 12.5 mm drive? |
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Stuart Moffatt
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Date Posted: 20:58:42 11/06/99 Sat
In reply to:
Shawn W. Miller
's message, "Does an XL take a 12.5 mm drive?" on 10:26:36 11/03/99 Wed
Not sure about that model (Vivante ?), but my Vibrant LS would only take 9.5mm drives (I wouldn't trying squeezing anything else in, unless your documentation specifies 12.7mm drives). Hitachi supposedly makes 9.5mm drives up to 12GB, but I had no luck finding anything above 6GB for sale, and little help from their customer service. I ending up getting an IBM Travelstar 9.5mm 12GB drive from Outpost.com. It was fairly pricey, and rattles more than the old Hitachi, but other than that seems fine. The only problem I ran into, was that the BIOS on the LS read it as an 8 gig, and so Windows wouldn't partition beyond that. Luckily, it wasn't much of a problem as Linux recognized the drive straight off.
- Stuart
> Hi everyone!
>
> The hard disk in my XL recently bit the big one, and I
> am searching for a replacement. I have found a great
> deal on a Hitachi 10GB drive, but it is 12.5 mm high.
> From my own measurements of the space inside my
> machine, it looks like that might just *barely* fit in
> there, even though the original drive (also a Hitachi,
> don't know if that was standard) was only 9.5 mm.
> Anyone have any experiences with trying to put a
> larger drive in their XL? I'd hate to order the drive
> and then find out it barely doesn't fit; the frame of
> the "9.5 mm" drive is slightly taller than 9.5 mm, and
> I am wondering if something similar happens with the
> 12.5 mm version. I'm also wondering about ventilation.
>
> Many thanks in advance!
>
> - Shawn
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