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re Compatibility of third party hard disks and TP701
- To: thinkpad@cs.utk.edu
- Subject: re Compatibility of third party hard disks and TP701
- From: "J. Starkey" <jstarkey@julian.uwo.ca>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 13:04:58 -0400 (EDT)
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Recently my ThinkPad 701 cs stopped accessing the hard drive - it just did
not recognize the hard drive even if booted from a floppy. I sent it to
EasyServ who suggested that the third party hard disk, a 1.08 gb from
Microsense, had "blown" the system board - which they repaired. The 701
was only meant to handle up to a 720 mb disk from IBM!
Is this reasonable? Have others had similar disastrous compatibility
problems?
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John Starkey, Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3B7
tel: (519) 661 3185 fax: (519) 661 3198 e-mail: jstarkey@julian.uwo.ca