Re: [Thinkpad] Largest HDD for T43 - not so fast.

What is a T52? Did I miss something?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Etkins" <jon@snikte.net>
To: "Thinkpad User Group" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 12:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Largest HDD for T43 - not so fast.

> I finally experienced this behaviour first-hand today, though on a T52
rather than a T43. I installed an genuine IBM-branded Hitachi Travelstar
from a T41 (so that I could remove the hardware password and unhide the
service partition before redeploying the drive) and the BIOS halted after
POST with the warning about incompatible firmware versions. But
interestingly, the message explicitly told me how to go into the BIOS and
disable the halt so that if I wanted to continue to use the drive, it would
boot without intervention, albeit still displaying the warning for a few
seconds each time it was booted.
>
> That seems like a reasonable compromise to me, so I'm puzzled why people
regard it as a show-stopper. Or does the T43 BIOS not offer such an option?
>
> Laurence Spiegel wrote:
> >
> > The T43 has issues regarding HDDs other than those supplied by
ibm/lenovo specifically for that model, even if you purchase the same mfrs
model # retail. There's a half baked sata implementation causing the issue.
See http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=11059 The topic has
reached 9 pages.
> >
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> > From: "Jon Etkins" <jon@snikte.net> CC:
thinkpad@stderr.org To: "Aryeh Goretsky" <goretsky@gmail.com> Date:
Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:46:27 -0600 Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] [T43p] largest
capacity HDD recognized?
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> > I recently installed a 100GB drive in a T42 with no problems, so I
would presume a T43 would be similarly trouble-free. Aryeh Goretsky
wrote: > > Does anyone know what the largest capacity hard disk drive is
which can > be installed in the T43p [2668-H7U]? I noticed ZipZoomFly
has the 100GB > 7200RPM HGST E7K100 and 7K100 models in stock and was
wondering if either > of these would work.
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