[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: laptop module hard drive

[Fred James]

Thomas Cameron wrote:

>Fred James wrote:
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>>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)
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer
>>Regards
>>Fred James
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>Fred -
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>I use modular bays frequently.  They seem to work very well, no problems
>here.
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>Thomas
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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