Re: No Subject (TP701 HD-Caddies)

["Jimmy C. Yang" <yangcx@cc.purdue.edu>]

Hi,

  About the Toshiba 1300MB HD, does it come with the right caddy? Or we
have to get it ourselves?
	Thanks,
		Jim
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Neal Ostrem wrote: 
> In answer to a), I have successfully used a Toshiba 810Mb (MK1926FCV)
> drive
> and a Toshiba 1300Mb (MK1301MAV) drive in my 701c.  I used the 810Mb drive
> for a number of months and all the power-management functions seemed to
> work
> fine.  Noise level and battery life were not appreciably different from
> the original drive.
> 
> I've only had the 1300Mb drive for a couple of days so all I can really
> report is that the BIOS does SEEM to recognize it correctly.   The 701
> bios does have a bug in the way it displays the drive capacity though -
> when the capacity reaches a 4 digit number the display routine chops off
> the leading digit (in my case the "displayed" capacity is 250Mb).
> However, when I run fdisk it correctly identifies and uses the full drive
> capacity.
> 
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> Neal Ostrem              email:  nealo@netcom.com
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