From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Tue Aug 20 2002 - 20:57:34 EDT
i THINK you're stuck..
you'll need to get the 240 running..
perhaps the drive will be able to be accessed in ANY thinkpad, if you know
the HDD password..
do you have another thinkpad available to try it out on..??
i suppose i could test this theory, but it'll take a while to bubble to the
top of the stack of stuff i need to do...
<------------------------------->
Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Cormac McGuinness" <cormac_at_BUPHY.bu.edu>
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 2:33 PM
Subject: Dead TP240, hard drive ok but inaccessible?
> hi there
>
> Can anyone help ? I was happily running linux on my TP240 (2609-21U
> 300Hz) until about two weeks ago when instead of booting it went beep
> in a 1-3-3-1 sequence. This error is called "Autosize DRAM" and can
> apparently occur when the memory is bad. I reseated the extra memory and
> it worked one more time before failing to boot once again, now it fails
> to boot with no extra memory but just that soldered onto the mainboard.
> So, firstly, i am looking for a replacement motherboard for a TP240 -
> anyone know where i should go ?
>
> but secondly, and of more urgency, is that now I have to retrieve files
> from the laptop hard drive. I have a desktop to laptop hard drive
> adapter but the damn thing refused to work - i got all sorts of weird
> linux error messages. I had thought that the drive was fried but when I
> then ran IBMs "drive Fitness test" program it indicated that the hard
> drive was locked by a password and couldnt be tested....
> (this would explain a similar problem with a 6Gb drive that I had taken
> out of the TP240 last year which i was never able to get to work outside
> the laptop)
>
> So, now I have a hard drive and I know the hard drive password that was
> set using the TP240 but I can no longer use the TP240 - is there any
> tool for linux (or windows, i am prepared to reboot) that will allow me
> to access the hard drive or is it purely a matter of what bios i have in
> the desktop machine ?
>
> Yours
> Cormac
> --
> Cormac McGuinness (cormac_at_physics.bu.edu)
>
>
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