On 12/17/10 15:46, Ray Rashif wrote: >> I had a Compaq laptop that looked like it had a different connector. >> Turned out that Compaq attaced a different connector to the SATA port >> before inserting it into the machine's drive port. Possibly your >> ThinkPad is similar? > Laptops either have SATA or IDE. Both types of connections are of a > different form factor compared to their 3.5" counterparts. That is not correct. One of the main advantages of the SATA connectors is that the power and data connectors are identical for 2.5" and 3.5" drives. Flo -- Machines can do the work, so people have time to think. public key DA43FEF4 x-hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user