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Identify this part please. (Image included)
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:49 am
by sumsar
Hi fellow thinkpad friends.
I've found af couple of auctions in ebay selling this IBM usb 2.0 external drive. I've found it with an including DVD drive, and DVD-RW drive.
Can anyone identify this IBM part?
The thing I like about this drive is the matching thinkpad theme, and the ability to power the drive directly from my thinkpad with no extra power.
Heeelllpppp!!!
/sumsar
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 3:36 pm
by gazingwa
Looks like a knockoff to me, the ibm drives usually use a blue eject button. I saw them on ebay, the driver disc doesn't say ibm either...
Still might be an ok drive though, but I doubt it is genuine IBM
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:40 pm
by sumsar
I wasn't thinking of the drive inside. More of the "box" - I found another picture wich shows the IBM logo quite good, and it looks like a geniune IBM logo. But since i can't find any info on these boxe's i also start to wounder if it is a knock-off.
Does anyone know of an external housing for a ultra bay drive? (For usb)
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:28 pm
by JHEM
I'm not familiar with every accessory for recent Thinkpads, but I've got both the IBM USB2.0 external CD/DVD drive and the IBM USB2.0 external CD-RW/DVD drive and they're both clamshell style devices, not tray style.
Regards,
James
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:57 am
by gazingwa
Well. I know the only way you could get a unit looking like that (plain deive with an IBM case) is an Ultraslimbay external for a tp 570/600
Those were PCMCIA, as JHEM said, most ibm drives are clamshell
To make an IBM logo like that, all you need is a stencil and some Krylon, or a sticker. Kind of like the IBM external usb 2.5" enclosures
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:49 am
by Batuta
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