Without the BIOS tweak, the boot process pauses with a warning message until user intervention ( <ESC> key press) allows it to continue. With the BIOS tweak, the boot process displays the warning message for 20 seconds or until <ESC> key press--whichever comes first--then continues.
I replaced the original 80GB Hitachi in my T43p with a 320GB Western Digital three years ago and have had no problems. Good luck. max danger On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Timothy Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 07 October 2011 20:16:52 Michael A. Williams wrote: > > > Does it run on a T43? > > > Yes it will run in a T43 but you will have to "tweak" the BIOS so it > > doesn't report a drive error each time the machine is started. The BIOS > > "tweak" can be found by doing a Google search. > > I have a T43 with a large disk, and get the well-know warning > every time I re-boot. > > I've read about the BIOS tweak, > but I've always felt that if the tweak went wrong > it would cause so much more trouble > than pressing ESC each time I re-boot > that it is not worth trying. > > My question was not well expressed; > I should have said, "Will the disk run in a T43 without giving a warning". > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland > _______________________________________________ > 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
