ULTRA ATA/100 2.5" Drives...

[shaunymac]

Does anyone know where to get these?

My mom has an iBook that I told her I would fix for her and I can't really find any. Newegg has one and out of three reviews, two people say it is crap.

I ordered just a ATA drive on accident and didn't look at the drive before I started taking apart the computer so now I have this thing spread out across my floor. I hate these olders macs. Ugh! 50 screws just to get to the hard drive.

Any help/suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks guys!

 

[shaunymac]

Nm, I was being stupid.

I always seem to forget you have to pull off that connector on ata drives. I even went so far as to go buy another one before I realized this. Wow, I feel dumb sometimes.

Oh well. Lesson learned. The iBook is put back together! Leopard is being installed as I type. Hooray!

 

[Silencio]

Usually laptop drives are referred to as ATA/5 or ATA/6. I think all Apple laptops made after 2000 take ATA/6 drives just fine, including all non-toilet seat iBooks.

 

[shaunymac]

I always hate ordering ATA drives because of all the different tags associated with them.

My leopard disc is being a pain. It's stalling, giving me "install failed," yadda yadda. This disc has done this to me from day one. I should really take it and see if apple will swap it.