From: "Henning Brauer" <lists-open...@bsws.de>
* Robert <rob...@openbsd.pap.st> [2009-09-17 16:34]:
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:16:58 +0200
Henning Brauer <lists-open...@bsws.de> wrote:
> * Aaron Mason <simplersolut...@gmail.com> [2009-09-17 03:52]:
> > Would these drives by any chance be similar to the 1.8" ZIF drives
> > used in (*shudder*) 5th gen iPods? I have one from my iPod that
> > died a horrible death and it still runs fine.
> >
> > The drive's a 30 gigabyte Toshiba drive, and after the iPod it was
> > used on a PATA to 1.8" ZIF converter and used on a PC running
> > OpenBSD. If this suits your needs, I'm happy to donate it if you
> > can cover postage from Australia.
>
> x40 do not use 1.8" zif drives but 1.8" drives with the regular 2.5"
> pata interface. which is exactly the issue - nothing else does.
The iPod might not have suitable drives for the X41, but some other MP3
players do. Possibly the iRiver series, but my memory fails me.
I recommend browsing http://forum.thinkpads.com/ for more information.
They can give you chapter and verse on both the drives and compact flash
options.
Just how hard is hacking ACPI to get the X60/X61 working, anyway?
Currently I'm trying to fix an old X driver (on an AMD Geode based system
: it just turns the screen black) but perhaps I should help to get other
bits of
hardware I own working.
PK
