More info on the HD (720c)

[Rusty Carruth]

> Original message from: "Bob George"
> _/"Sean Roe" <jackryan@azbiz.net> wrote:
> _/
> _/
> _/> The Drive in it appears to be a Western Digital 160 MB (Woo Hoo!)
> _/> It Carries the model # WD-W2160D
> _/>
> _/> I am still trying to find the gemetry for this drive.  If anybody knows it
> _/or wher I can find it please let me know.
> _/

... western digital site...

> _/for that model and found nothing that was an exact match, although they
> _/certainly seem to have everything going back to the 40MB RLL drives listed!

Hmm.  How close were the matches you found?  If its 'just' a suffix sometimes
you can get close...  But of course, some mfgrs use the suffix to tell you
if its SCSI, IDE, or what, so you need to be careful here (and I forget if
WD does).   Have you tried calling them on the phone?  The've been really
good to me that way...   (i had a service issue - drive was 1 month out
of warranty!  - AND THEY COVERED IT under warranty!  Gotta like 'em)

Have you checked out the corpsys.com site?  They used to have drive
info there.  (I bought their 'hard drive bible' book and have found 
it pretty useful - but I'm not sure I suggest buying it - it has a 
lot of holes.  I'll try to remember to go look in it when
I get home for your drive.)

> 
> Well from what I have gathered it is a 2.5 drive.  It is part of a Thinkpad Laptop that is P/S2 based.
> I think that makes the drive ESDI but I am not sure.

hmm.  I thought PS/2 ran IDE and RLL and such like also?

rusty