Re: [Thinkpad] About The 7K60 Firmware...(the famous ..or infamous)

Don't look at me... I got burned by one FW upgrade (I flashed a Hitachi
branded TravelStar with IBM firmware - same model number - and eventually
had to get the drive replaced) and won't ever do one again on the ThinkPad
line... now if HGST (sp?) releases a firmware update, I'd install that, but
they don't seem to proactively do that, so it's almost moot.

I AM glad that they now check for IBM firmware on the drive before allowing
you to flash it with IBM firmware because of Our Thing here (which is
helpful - and how it should have been originally!)... I kept beating the
stuff outta CSR's until I could file a bug with the software team :)

>From: "Harvey H.W. Chen" <e2488669@nckualumni.org.tw>
>To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
>Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] About The 7K60 Firmware...(the famous ..or
>infamous)
>Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:13:49 +0800
>
>Well, answering for myself, either A6DA nor A6BA firmware from IBM will
>hurt the hard disk IF the drive is HPA absent. I tried the FTool's change
>capacity function after I upgraded to A6DA, and still succeeded: the SET
>MAX command is still working.
>
>So, one should definitely want to delete the HPA area first before using
>IBM's firmware update! It can be restored back after the upgrade.
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