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AT interface on IBM thinkkpad 600

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:14 pm
by henpike
I was wondering if someone could steer my in the right direction here and clear something up. I am new to laptops so youll have to please bare with me. I have been looking into upgrading my hard drive for my thinkpad 600. I noticed that the AT interface says ATA-4 for my thinkpad. All the hard drives I have been loooking into are ATA 7 and the majority are ATA-6. I am asssuming now that I cannot use any of those is that correct ? I must use one that says ATA-4 ? I wasnt aware there were different sizes that fit different machines. I thought it was like a desktop where mostly all ATA drives are compatiable. Thanks again !

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:10 pm
by JHEM
With the latest BIOS installed the 600 series of laptops can use any HD presently manufactured.

All ATA6 and ATA7 HDs are backwards compatible with the ATA4 standard.

Regards,

James