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If you want to go the route of downgrading the BIOS, you need 1.03 or older, NOT 1.23 Cheers, George -----Original Message----- From: Nguyen Dao <[email protected]> To: Timothy Murphy <[email protected]>; Thinkpad Users Group <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Wed, Jul 29, 2009 1:33 am Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Acceptable disks for T43 Hi, ? To install a non-T43 hard drive on a T43 without getting 2010 error, the bios needs to be at 1.23 level or below. --- On Tue, 7/28/09, Repair Clinic <[email protected]> wrote: From: Repair Clinic <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Acceptable disks for T43 To: "Timothy Murphy" <[email protected]>, "Thinkpad Users Group" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 10:14 PM No, it is much more complex than that... They will accept almost any disk size *40 GB or less *Then it depends on the system board and the actual drive model number... You are only totally safe while using Hitachi 40 GB drives, and they are no longer available new.? There is also a short report on the Hitachi site which implies that Hitachi is working on a fix, but they are not. There is a reasonably complete report on Wikipedia, and an excellent report found elsewhere online... but I will have to dig up which hard d rive I have stored the full report...? ? When all studies are included, there are about 15 typewritten pages. There is also a brief report on Lenovo's website and the sarcastic reply from the CEO of Lenovo China and another on the Lenovo IBM people on Long Island. People such as Bruce Markowitz have pretty good knowledge. I will dig my stuff out of the archives and send it to you. The last I saw, somebody was working on Fujitsu drives which were believed to work at any size... but I doubt that was true. RB ----- This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. ...???....? ? .....? ???......? ? ? .......? ? ???Oscar Wilde On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Timothy Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > > In my experience, my T43's will accept any disk size 80GB of less, > but complain about any larger disk, and will not continue > until I press ESC. > > Is that correct? > Or can I find a list somewhere of dis ks acceptable to the T43? > > ______________________________ _________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
