In our experience, all drive brands of 5400 rpm and 4200 rpm up to 80 GB should work in the 600X.
Alternately, the IBM and Hitachi drives are practically identical in actual use... and all 40 GB drives 5400 rpm will work. But they are not good choices or models compared to Toshiba, Seagate, and Western Digital. I would not waste time attempting to install a Samsung or a Fujitsu, though they certainly should work as reliably as they do elsewhere. The IBM, Hitachi, Samsung, and early Fujitsu are simply not as reliable or for as long as Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital Scorpio. . You do not need that incremental backup, do you? If not, smash the drive with a hammer to end any risk that it can be read elsewhere, and you are done. - - - - - I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far. ... .... ..... ..... ....... ......... Neil Simon On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Aryeh Goretsky (home) <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > I would strongly suggest replacing the hard disk drive. I do not > recall if the 600-series of ThinkPads is of the vintage that worked > best with IBM or Hitachi hard disk drives, but if you cannot find > suitable rotating media replacements, perhaps you can use a fast > CompactFlash card with a suitable CF-to-PATA adapter, instead. > > Regards, > > Aryeh Goretsky > > > > At 09:00 AM 10/31/2009, you wrote: > >> Message: 4 >> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:39:45 -0400 >> >> From: "Jeffrey Race" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] 600X making progress >> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:30:23 -0700, Aryeh Goretsky (home) wrote: >> >> >Have you tried performing a non-destructive test of the hard disk drive >> >using the hard disk drive manufacturer's diagnostic utiiity? That >> >should tell you whether or not the hard disk drive has begun to fail. >> >In the event that it has, it would probably be a good idea to replace >> >it, as damage tends to increase over time, sometimes quite rapidly. >> >> >> Yes I hv 32 k bad bytes on another partition so sure it's beginning >> to go >> > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
