on tue aug NUMBER NUMBER at NUMBER NUMBER NUMBERpm NUMBER vincent cunniffe mentioned there is absolutely no way to use a conventional NUMBER NUMBER drive with a laptop directly however you can get an external firewire or usb cradle and attach it to the laptop like that and any NUMBER NUMBER drive will work in that case ah they told me that about my aNUMBER just got a video box cut air holes and a hole for the cables then got an extra long NUMBER NUMBER to NUMBER NUMBER ide cable and connected it up had to make a few holes in the aNUMBER case for the ide cable too worked a charm until i dropped the disk one day onto concrete kate irish linux users group ilug URL URL for un subscription information list maintainer listmaster URL 