FS 20gb 2.5 ide drive

[twizzle]

i have for sale a IBM Travelstar 2.5" ide 20gb laptop drive
model No IC25N020ATCS04-0

i bought this of fleabay last year, it was advertised as 2.1gb
and wondered why i could not set it up last week
it spins up and does not make any nasty noises

it stands me £23 + the p&p

£10 and its yours

[StevenJGore]

and wondered why i could not set it up last week

If you use OS3.9 BB2 and SmartFileSystem, you can use the full 20GB.

[alexh]

Sounds buggered to me. Best to try it on PC first make sure it works. A 2.5" to 3.5" adapter wouldnt cost much and you could then install it using WinUAE (nice and fast!)

[twizzle]

Originally Posted by StevenJGore

If you use OS3.9 BB2 and SmartFileSystem, you can use the full 20GB.

i use OS3.5,ffs + bb1&2, and not being an amiga wizard i have enough headaches as it is trying to keep my system going.

[alexh]

Did you only ever try it as a replacement disk?

It should have worked fine as a slave disk when booting with that setup.

[twizzle]

Originally Posted by alexh

Sounds buggered to me. Best to try it on PC first make sure it works. A 2.5" to 3.5" adapter wouldnt cost much and you could then install it using WinUAE (nice and fast!)

why does it sound buggered ? just by the description.
as i have bought a few with no probs at all.
plus i dont want to faf around with winuae on my pc, when i have proper amiga`s

[twizzle]

Originally Posted by alexh

Did you only ever try it as a replacement disk?

It should have worked fine as a slave disk when booting with that setup.

i was selling the 2.5 hd as a 2.1gb (so i thought ) and installing os3.1 onto it,
it wasnt until i tried to read the drive & partion it, then it would not reconise it.

even power computing could not setup a 3.5 20gb drive, in my tower using OS3.5

[alexh]

Originally Posted by twizzle

why does it sound buggered ? just by the description.

10+ years of experience buying "sold as seen" stuff off the net.

Originally Posted by twizzle

even power computing could not setup a 3.5 20gb drive, in my tower using OS3.5

No? They always were crap.

[twizzle]

this was sold as tested and fully working by the seller

[twizzle]

i have now put a price on the hd, of £10

if anyone is interested, i will get it tested for piece of mind.
thanks
twizzle

[musojon74]

Hi Twizzle- if this tests as good with no bad sectors, and you can wait til 25th, I'll have that as well as the 1200 stuff