I had a PB145 that I tried to get a new hard drive for about six months ago. If the drive in there works, think long and hard about making it work. If you need more read-write storage, there are several old SCSI cartridge type systems that can be had cheap. This includes Zip, Syquest, or you could use an external hard drive.
The reason I suggest that is my personal experience: the drives are hard to find at all, let alone at anything approaching a reasonable price. The drive in my 145 had bad sectors on at least 10% of the drive(320MB). I got lucky when a friend found an old 80MB in his old stuff bin. It didn't work either. I bought another 320MB drive off eBay. It would spontaneously lose power and crash. As far as capacity, the Duo 2300 came with a 1.1GB SCSI hard drive I believe, so they should be available up to that big. There exist adapters to connect a IDE drive to a SCSI Powerbook, but I haven't used them. Be prepared to pay through the nose for anything with a guarantee/warranty, and WAY more for larger drives. To make a long story short (oops, too late; sorry) if the one you have works, learn to love it because a new drive will cost several times the value of the PB and external solutions exist. --- "Gary F. Daught" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings. I'm thinking the 120MB hard drive that came with my recently > acquired PowerBook 180 is not going to be adequate for long (even > though I bought it just for basic low-intensive use). Can someone tell > me what type of hard drive goes into a 180, and size range (MB) > available? Can it hold something in the 350-500MB range? Anyone got a > good condition one in this range they're wanting to sell for not too > much money? Thanks. > > Gary Daught > [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
