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>From: Paulo Magalhaes <pm119@columbia.edu> >I would like to replace the 340 Mb hard disk in my old and faithful >TP750C with something "a little bigger": about 1 Gb. At the same time >I would like to keep the old HD as an external one, if the price for >this is not prohibitive. Any suggestions regarding sources (company, >brand of HD, part #, approx. price) and bits and pieces of information >which you may find useful (BIOS update requirements, suspend/hibernation >problems, etc, etc) will be greatly appreciated. I replaced my 340 MB HD with 1.2 GB IBM DPRA-21250 and a 1.3 GB Toshiba MK-1301 drives in two caddies (one from my original 340 MB HD and one from a colleagues 170 MB HD. The currently released BIOS remaps both drives from their original "geometry" into something with less than 1024 cylinders so any partition on the disk is bootable. The APM suspend/hibernation etc all work just the same as in the original system. The only problem I have is that the startup power drain from these new drives pulls down the battery output so far the system begins to power on and goes immediately into critical low battery suspend state. Once I start the system with the adaptor plugged into the wall it will run for hours on the same battery. It would be nice to have another solution for system startup. Cheers, AJ Annala, Pharmacology, University College London