Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 09:20:46 +0800
From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Toshiba 100GB HD review
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> Having said that AFAIK no-one has modded the firmware (in this case,
> probably the BIOS and IDE controller) to handle the ATA limit so the
> distinction is somewhat academic.
.. I wouldn't be surprised if 1x0ct's crappy ide controller (isa? it
can't even do DMA) will just say "no thanks" to these drives. However
I'd be happy to be proven wrong. :-)
The 1x0ct's IDE controller almost certainly won't understand ATA-6 but I'm
almost certain the drive will recognise this and fall back into
compatibility mode ...
<snip>
> You could always do something silly like use a SATA PCMCIA card then
> run wires back to the hard drive bay and somehow get a HDD and
> connector to fit into the original HDD bay (should be possible with
> some creative plasticwork) ... then figure out how to boot the
> Libretto off the SATA PCMCIA card :-)
..and use a very very tiny cfcard(to-ide-adaptor) to boot from? Sounds
reasonable. Wouldn't a raid0 setup with 6 or even 10 of those 0,85 inch
drives be fun? ;-)
Well, what with these Alienware bric^H^H^H^Hlaptops with their dual hard
drive bays and dual optical drives I'm sure it's possible to fit 10 or even
maybe 20 CF cards or microdrives with interfaces in a laptop ;-D
Somehow I'm not sure how many you'll manage to fit into the Libretto though
... it DOES have the capability to manage 4 Cardbus slots though (with the
docking station) so a RAID setup of some form isn't totally stupid
(partially maybe!) ... I wonder how long it'll be before we can fit 1TB
into a laptop the size of the Libretto ...
- Raymond
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