[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: laptop module hard drive

[Daniel Hauck]

Fred James さんは書きました:
> Thomas Cameron wrote:
> 
>> Fred James wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> All
>>> (in particular it is an old Dell Latitude C840 (PP01X)
>>> Mandriva 2007
>>> Mobil Intel Pentium 4 M 1.8 GHz
>>> 512 MB memory
>>> 40 GB Hard drive
>>> - if that makes a difference)
>>>
>>> In looking into a new hard drive for the little guy, I ran across 
>>> something called a modular bay hard drive - put it in the second bay 
>>> instead of the floppy, second battery, or whatever.
>>>
>>> Anyone had any experience with such a thing, particularly running under 
>>> Linux?  Really just wondering if they run, and run well, but I should 
>>> like to any pro/con you may have to offer.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer
>>> Regards
>>> Fred James
>>>    
>>>
>> Fred -
>>
>> I use modular bays frequently.  They seem to work very well, no problems
>> here.
>>
>> Thomas
>>  
>>
> Thomas Cameron
> The modular bay hard drive - is it a standard type, such as a laptop 
> IDE?  In other words, is the modular bay enclosure is made for a 
> specific model or brand or series of laptop(s)?  Can the drive be 
> removed from the enclosure and used elsewhere, or it a sort of 
> integrated kind of thing?  Is the arrangement like cable select, or do 
> jumpers have to be set for master/slave?  Thank you in advance for any 
> help you may be able to offer.
> Regards
> Fred James
> 

No, it's a Dell thing.  In fact, in their case, it's a C-series Dell
thing.  There is a D-series modular bay thing too, of course... in fact,
today I happened across an unused modular bay battery pack. :)  Not sure
I'll ever use it, but it works.