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Can I use PC IDE notebook hard disk in my Sparcbook?

April 26, 2017IDE notebook pc sparcbook

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Can I use PC IDE notebook hard disk in my Sparcbook?

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Yes and no. The SB uses SCSI drives, however, there is a company in Japan (http://www.adtx.com. Unfortuneity, they will only deal with OEMs) that sells an IDE to SCSI converter. It is a 4.5mm high card that fits on top of the 2.5″ IDE drive. Some Apple notebooks use this converter. If you can get your hands on the converter, you can use any 2.5″ IDE disk that you want. I believe that the largest true SCSI notebook disk drive made was 1.2G. If you see a SCSI notebook disk drive bigger than 1.2G, it probably has the converter in it. NEW! A company call Mac Components Engineered is selling IDE disk with the converter on them! A 3.2G disk cost $349.