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On Thu, 12 Jun 1997 13:07:18 -0400 (EDT), rj wrote: >FWIW I replaced my 701's 720MB HDD with a 1.3GB Toshiba MK-1301MAV >about a year ago and have not had the slightest problem, apparant >anyway. > >On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Peter Lewis wrote: > >> >> IBM 701 tech support guy I spoke with today advised against installing any >> thing other than an IBM HD into the 701. He maintained that non IBM drives >> either wouldn't fit, or if they did fit, would not work because of a >> proprietary IBM connector. >> >> Clearly, there's a corporate self interest in saying this, and I gather >> from other posts to this list that many have successfully installed >> non IBM HDs into 701s. True, but oddly, I couldn't get my desktop to recognize my 720meg drive when I took it out of the caddy to install a "generic" Warp 4 installation on another machine with a CD-ROM. And what's interesting is that as I write this, that machine has 2 IBM 2.5" drives running fine on it right now (1 340meg from a 755CE, and a 250meg from my dead 355C). Maybe in a ways the IBM drive itself is proprietary, but I'm sure it can use non-IBM drives for the 701, though. Paul And for PEPsales: Do NOT reply to this if you are going to sell us something AGAIN. Regards, Paul Khoury pkhoury@earthlink.net