From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Apr 14 2:46:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from pandora.alice.net.uk (pandora.alice.net.uk [212.42.0.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A63C37B749 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 02:46:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aledm@routers.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pandora.alice.net.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA42473; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:43:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from aledm@routers.co.uk) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:43:10 +0100 (BST) From: Aled Morris X-Sender: aledm@pandora.alice.net.uk To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: John Lengeling , cmdrpc@att.net, Eaglez Subject: Re: Upgrading Notebooks In-Reply-To: <20000414043627.25885.qmail@web108.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Eaglez wrote: >OK, you should know that Libretto's are a bit >different from your standard laptop. I personally call >them "knee-top"s, because they're so small. That's not >a standard 2.5" IDE hard drive in there. It's a 9" or >12" weird thing. I'm not sure. When I used to have one (I got rid of it because it was just tooooo small to work on!) I investigated HDD upgrades. It is a normal 2.5" drive, but it is very thin - 9mm or so as I recall. You can get third party replacements (I think they are the same as appear in the IBM ThinkPad 560) and there are web sites that describe how to do it: http://pacher.netliberte.org/UK/e_12Go.htm Aled To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message