I have a weird example for you, i had a 60 gig samsung drive in my a600 to begin with, that worked fine, detected fine etc. i later swapped over to the 1200, worked fine there, then another old laptop landed in my lap, took the hard drive, a 60 gig toshiba disk, partitioned it with the 1200, then proceeded to stuff it in the 600, only to have it not show up... at all. Kick 3.1 this tho. However, for some reason a smaller 1 gig i believe, seemed to be faster in the 600 then the 60 gig, i say seemed because it could have been my imagination.