Re: [Thinkpad] Hard Drive Firmware version 8 has been released

I'm not sure that anyone can give you one.

Short answer is that there is a version 8 of HD firmware that should update
your drive "without any problems".

Longer answer involves the explination that I did exactly that with version
7.1 and had problems with it on my drive... problems that Hitachi won't
recognize or support and that IBM tells me "it wasn't meant for you"
(although it ran OK) and "that drive isn't supported" (even though they told
me it would be). The version 8 edition seems to be the same driver that the
version 7.1 was, but in talking to a high end support guy, I'm getting the
impression that it wasn't AND that I got some screwed up version two weeks
ago.

That's all I have on it - best thing you can do is contact IBM support and
hope that they have more info on it. Also, you got the 60GB/7200 model?
And that firmware from 2 weeks ago didn't screw up your pre-desktop area?
Neat.

Cheers

>From: Mark Houlder <mark.houlder@ot-t.com>
>Reply-To: mark.houlder@ot-t.com
>To: thinkpad@stderr.org
>Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Hard Drive Firmware version 8 has been released
>Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 17:23:01 +0000
>
>can someone give a brief overview of all this firmware update situation? i
>have the 60GB drive (on a T41) which supposedly needs the update, but don't
>know whether i need to do it to prevent my drive from dying in the near
>future, or whether using the update will kill it anyway.
>
>i did actually try installing the version that was on the IBM server a
>couple of weeks back (the hdd, non-diskette version), but apart from
>restarting the computer it didn't seem to do much; anyway my drive has
>carried on working... since then i've seen conflicting reports about
>installing/not installing and and getting a tad confused.
>
>what is the idiot's guide version of this affair?
>
>
>mark

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