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On Mon, 28 Aug 1995, doug diamond wrote: > There was some discussion once that early TP750's with 170MB HDs had > a case that was not the same as later ones (eg. later 170MB disk > cases were the same as the 340MB disk case). Does anyone know if > the early 170 case will still work with a new 12mm drive (e.g. the > Toshiba 810MB)? Any advice on this upgrade? I've got one of those hypothetically different cases (we never did find out exactly why they were different). The only difference I found was that when you screw the connector into the plastic case, the pin receptacles are offset from the disk's pins by one pin (one of the pins is missing on the drive, and on the old drive it lines up with a capped receptacle on the connector. On the new drive this cap is offset by one pin). I played with the flex-cable until I could force it to fit. I was concerned the solder joints would eventually break from fatigue, but it's held up for over a year (including a dozen or so swaps back back and forth from the original disk). I don't know how any of this would relate to a 3rd party drive. There is nothing physically different about the connector, just the position it lines up at when you place the drive in the case. If the 3rd party drive is smaller in width than the IBM drive by about 1mm, either connector will work without problems. If they're the same, you may have to do what I did. ___________________________________________________________________________ John H. Kim "A common mistake that people make when trying to design jokim@mit.edu something completely foolproof is to underestimate the jokim@tuna.mit.edu ingenuity of complete fools." -- Douglas Adams