Has anyone seen an adapter or cable that would marry two 2.5inch hard
drives as master & slave stacked on top of each other and plug back
into a laptop harddrive slot? I have a Thinkpad600E and was looking to
add more disk space. This may mean a special caddy adapter that
handles a master and slave 2.5inch drives.

<charlie.eng******.com> wrote in message
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> Has anyone seen an adapter or cable that would marry two 2.5inch hard
> drives as master & slave stacked on top of each other and plug back
> into a laptop harddrive slot? I have a Thinkpad600E and was looking to
> add more disk space. This may mean a special caddy adapter that
> handles a master and slave 2.5inch drives.
>

Why on earth would you want to do this? They would not fit inside the case.
You can either buy a larger capacity HDD and replace the one inside the
lappy, or buy an external USB drive. I have a Seagate 160GB USB drive that
is smaller than a paperback book and is bus powered.

Bobby

"Hertz_Donut" <nowhere@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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>
> Why on earth would you want to do this? They would not fit inside
> the case. You can either buy a larger capacity HDD and replace the
> one inside the lappy, or buy an external USB drive. I have a Seagate
> 160GB USB drive that is smaller than a paperback book and is bus
> powered.

Ooooowwww.... bus powered! :)

--
Bill

charlie.eng******.com wrote:
> Has anyone seen an adapter or cable that would marry two 2.5inch hard
> drives as master & slave stacked on top of each other and plug back
> into a laptop harddrive slot? I have a Thinkpad600E and was looking to
> add more disk space. This may mean a special caddy adapter that
> handles a master and slave 2.5inch drives.

Very strange, but as long as you don't mind hard drives sticking out the
bottom of the notebook, it can be done.

You can buy a 3 Way 44 Pin 2.5 IDE Hard drive cable, though I've only
seen them on eBay.

This assumes that the 600E can supply enough power for two drives,
requires that the notebook hard drives are able to be jumperable for
master and slave, and that the BIOS can handle two drives. I've used
such a device in the past, but only in a laboratory setting.

Not sure what size drive the 600E can handle, it's pretty old, but you
could buy a 40GB or so notebook drive for less than it would cost you to
kludge something together. If it has a USB, you could use the Apricorn
case and software to ghost the drive, then put the new drive into the
Thinkpad. I've used their Parallel IDE product, and it worked well.

I don't think an external USB drive is a good idea because the 600E is
not USB 2.0.

"SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
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> charlie.eng******.com wrote:
> I don't think an external USB drive is a good idea because the 600E is
> not USB 2.0.

How about adding a USB 2.0 PC Card? ;)

--
Bill

"BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote in message
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> "Hertz_Donut" <nowhere@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:x8udnWup1OUo-6bYnZ2dnUVZ_u6dnZ2d@hawaiiantel.net
>>
>> Why on earth would you want to do this? They would not fit inside
>> the case. You can either buy a larger capacity HDD and replace the
>> one inside the lappy, or buy an external USB drive. I have a Seagate
>> 160GB USB drive that is smaller than a paperback book and is bus
>> powered.
>
> Ooooowwww.... bus powered! :)
>
> --
> Bill

Beats having to drag a brick along that weighs three times what the drive
does...

Honu

"SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
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> charlie.eng******.com wrote:
>
> This assumes that the 600E can supply enough power for two drives,
> requires that the notebook hard drives are able to be jumperable for
> master and slave, and that the BIOS can handle two drives. I've used such
> a device in the past, but only in a laboratory setting.

Actually the 600 series supports a second hard drive in the Ultraslimbay
through the use of a caddy ('second HDD adapter'), but it's long out of
production.

JL

No, but even if there was, it might not work. Some laptops have only a
single IDE port (hard drive as master & CD-ROM as slave), some use
master/slave, some use cable select.

A USB drive adapter is a better solution.


charlie.eng******.com wrote:

> Has anyone seen an adapter or cable that would marry two 2.5inch hard
> drives as master & slave stacked on top of each other and plug back
> into a laptop harddrive slot? I have a Thinkpad600E and was looking to
> add more disk space. This may mean a special caddy adapter that
> handles a master and slave 2.5inch drives.
>

Thanks to everyone for the respones. I have 2 thin 80gb hard drives
that I wanted to use rather than re-buy a 100-160gb one. I didn't care
if the drives stuck out either.

I'll look for the weird cable on eBAy and try it. The idea of using
the IBM UltraBay may give me a clue on how it shares the IDE channel or
not.

Charlie


Barry Watzman wrote:
> No, but even if there was, it might not work. Some laptops have only a
> single IDE port (hard drive as master & CD-ROM as slave), some use
> master/slave, some use cable select.
>
> A USB drive adapter is a better solution.
>
>
> charlie.eng******.com wrote:
>
> > Has anyone seen an adapter or cable that would marry two 2.5inch hard
> > drives as master & slave stacked on top of each other and plug back
> > into a laptop harddrive slot? I have a Thinkpad600E and was looking to
> > add more disk space. This may mean a special caddy adapter that
> > handles a master and slave 2.5inch drives.
> >