Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!hellgate!jacobs From: jacobs@cs.utah.edu (Steven R Jacobs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: T5200 upgrade Message-ID: Date: 23 Apr 91 19:52:45 GMT References: <1991Apr10.183506.20399@csi.uottawa.ca> <10597@orca.wv.tek.com> Distribution: na Organization: University of Utah CS Dept Lines: 14 In-reply-to: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM's message of 15 Apr 91 23:26:32 GMT In article <10597@orca.wv.tek.com> andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner) writes: > I investigated alternate hard disks for my T3100SX, and found that it > uses a JVC disk. JVC sells only to OEMs, not to end users, so you > can't do this upgrade yourself. And the BIOS won't configure to handle > a reasonable heads/cylinders/sectors set. > > I'd guess the same is true of the T5200. If you don't feel like > opening the box to see what disk it has, call Toshiba technical support > at (800) 456-8649 and ask. The 100M drives in the T5200 are Conner drives. I don't know about the newer 200M drives. -- Steve Jacobs ({bellcore,hplabs,uunet}!utah-cs!jacobs, jacobs@cs.utah.edu)