Toshiba Satellite laptop

[Mike Jeays]

I was thinking of getting a spare hard disk for a Toshiba Satellite
laptop (Pentium 3 with 256MB). Does anyone have any good or bad
experiences? It runs Knoppix perfectly well.

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

Do you just want a bigger disk?

If so, then go for it - although if the disk is buried in the
laptop, it's worth it to pay someone else to install it as you
aren't going to have the tools to take it apart, nor are you going
to have the instructions on how to get it apart.

Ted

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> I was thinking of getting a spare hard disk for a Toshiba Satellite
> laptop (Pentium 3 with 256MB). Does anyone have any good or bad
> experiences? It runs Knoppix perfectly well.
>
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[Mike Jeays]

On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 05:56, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

> Do you just want a bigger disk?
>
> If so, then go for it - although if the disk is buried in the
> laptop, it's worth it to pay someone else to install it as you
> aren't going to have the tools to take it apart, nor are you going
> to have the instructions on how to get it apart.
>
> Ted
>

> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Mike Jeays
> > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 4:13 PM
> > To: [email]freebsd-questions@freebsd.org[/email]
> > Subject: Toshiba Satellite laptop
> >
> >
> > I was thinking of getting a spare hard disk for a Toshiba Satellite
> > laptop (Pentium 3 with 256MB). Does anyone have any good or bad
> > experiences? It runs Knoppix perfectly well.
> >
> >
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I need to keep the existing Windows configuration intact on the old
disk, but would also like to try FreeBSD on this machine.

The disk seems to be designed to be easily removed in this model - there
are just two screws to undo, and it unplugs as a sealed unit. I took
the old one out and put it back in with no trouble, and it still worked
normally.