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Axel Hartmann wrote: > one (set of) question(s): is there any firm information (or a > well phrased rumor) on > a) the types of drives the bios will recognise, and > b) if all of the current functions will work, e.g.: automatic > spin down, automatic creation of the Tp 701.hib-file by bios, and > c) what the energy and noise levels of hard drives in question > are like: will my ears fall off, or will my battery life decrease > measurably? 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. -- -------------- Neal Ostrem email: nealo@netcom.com