I had some spare time, and I spent it for observing my Appleware 
I successfuly disassemled my Powerbook - very nice inside - and my iPod - second gen 15G too, which I bought in London, last year.
I’m heavily thinking on replacing the hard disks.
I haven’t find the exact id of the Powerbook hard disk on the net, so i publish it here: it’s a Toshiba HDD2189 60GB disk.
The iPod has a custom series like disk, i haven’t find any info on it (neither on www.toshiba.com) - it’s a Toshiba MK1504GAL. I already have storage problems on both comps, I can’t even download more music onto the iPod.
HDD2189 worth around $100 - I’d like to replace it with a Fujitsu MHU2100AT 100G one - sells at $180.
The MK1504GAL is not listed, but the replacement Toshiba MK4004GAH - 40G disk is around $160.
I purchased these items online, so this article will continue… I’m planning to install Mac Os X 10.4 Tiger with the new disk
Hi. I just bought a HDD2189 and couldn’t get it to work in my 15″ powerbook. Did you need to install some kind of special driver or something?
Please tell me whether your ipod upgrade was successful. Thanx.
hi! i don’t think you need anything to install for your new hardware.
Try to zap the nvram or alter the settings of the OpenFirmware.
[...] I opened and disassembled the Powerbook (as I did several times before) and now I’m writing this article onto the new drive. The old one will be used as another HDD in the Intel-laptop (the current host of Windows Vista and Ubuntu) and the laptop’s old drive will function as an external HDD via a 2,5″ $10 usb-craddle. (I’m still planing to upgrade my iPod, indeed - see the previous article ) [...]
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