>>>>> "Sean" == Sean Perry <shaleh@speakeasy.net> writes: [...] Sean> You then need an adapter to take the mini-ide + power of laptops Sean> and use it in a normal pc. Another option is to buy an external Sean> USB hard drive housing. Yet another option, if your ThinkPad has an UltraBay, is to get the 2nd hard drive adaptor. I think it was on the order of about $60 Canadian, so it may be a bit pricey if it's just for a one-off thing, but I find it pretty convenient. One nice thing about it is you can even boot from your second hard drive, so you don't have to fiddle with swapping hard drives. The only thing that you need to be aware of is that when you boot from the second hard drive, your BIOS (and hence your bootloader -- LILO or GRUB) will consider the drive in the UltraBay to be the first hard drive, but Linux, since it bypasses the BIOS, will consider it to be the /dev/hdc. -- Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
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