Speaking of failing hard drives, I have an old thinkpad T23 that has started to lock up randomly. Looking at the logs shows disk I/O errors, so I'm thinking that the drive is starting to go bad.
Now, for my desktop machines, I always just buy parts separately, and I know how to track down compatability issues? I've never really done any laptop hardware maintenance except upgrading RAM. Are laptop hard drives generally compatiable? IBM/Lenovo doesn't even keep information on the T23's compatibility with their current product selection, so I'm not sure how to guarantee that the laptop will be able to fit and read/write to some random vendor's "hard drive for mobile devices." Does anyone have experience with this? BTW, the laptop is happily running Debian sarge. I'm planning to use g4u to ghost the drive (if I can get through the entire disk without fatal disk errors) to one of my desktop machines so that I can restore it to the new drive. If anyone knows a better option, I'd love to listen to the voice of experience. :-) ---Tom -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
