250GB disk in T43, anyone?

[Timothy Murphy-5]

Is anyone using the 250GB WD disk in a ThinkPad T43?
Any complaints?

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[Donald B Altman]

Hi Timothy,

I'm using it on a T42p.  It's been rock solid so far.

Good Luck.

Don A

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Is anyone using the 250GB WD disk in a ThinkPad T43?
> Any complaints?
>

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[Michael Baumann]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Is anyone using the 250GB WD disk in a ThinkPad T43?
> Any complaints?

I am using it since a few months without any problems whatsoever.

Just the annoying error message and beep from the BIOS during bootup you get
with many non-orginal HDDs.

Regards,
Michael


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[Tino Keitel-3]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 12:00:01 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Is anyone using the 250GB WD disk in a ThinkPad T43?
> Any complaints?

Hi,

I think you are referring to this disk:

2.5" WD Scorpio 250GB WD2500BEVE

It works in a T43 so far. However, you get a warning at each power on
because the BIOS detects a hard disk with an unknown firmware. The T43
use PATA disks on a SATA port. It is possible that unknown firmware
cause errors with such a setup, so you get a warning. Google for "error
2010" for more details.

Regards,
Tino
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[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh-2]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Tino Keitel wrote:
> It works in a T43 so far. However, you get a warning at each power on
> because the BIOS detects a hard disk with an unknown firmware. The T43
> use PATA disks on a SATA port. It is possible that unknown firmware
> cause errors with such a setup, so you get a warning. Google for "error
> 2010" for more details.

Actually, we have found that it is far more the lack of HDAPS and the full
security command set that bothers the BIOS than anything else (IBM patches
those into the firmware of any disks that lack them, often removing
something else to make space for them :p).  Enough people never had any
issues with random disks plugged to that PATA/SATA port, that it looks like
it is safe.

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[Timothy Murphy-3]

On Monday 16 June 2008 08:48:54 am Tino Keitel wrote:

> > Is anyone using the 250GB WD disk in a ThinkPad T43?
> > Any complaints?
>
> Hi,
>
> I think you are referring to this disk:
>
> 2.5" WD Scorpio 250GB WD2500BEVE
>
> It works in a T43 so far. However, you get a warning at each power on
> because the BIOS detects a hard disk with an unknown firmware. The T43
> use PATA disks on a SATA port. It is possible that unknown firmware
> cause errors with such a setup, so you get a warning. Google for "error
> 2010" for more details.

Thanks.
That is indeed the disk.
I'm actually using a 160GB Seagate disk in another T43,
and this gives the same warning.
There is a beep, and a warning;
but then the machine goes into the usual boot cycle,
and works fine.

Is there any way of getting rid of the beep?
It doesn't really worry me, but it would be slightly nicer if it didn't occur.



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[Matthias Runge-2]

This question may sound silly, but I wonder if anyone has tried a SATA
disk directly (instead of using the PATA-SATA-bridge)

SATA disks are now as inexpensive as PATA disks (and you get even
bigger disks...)

Matthias

2008/6/16 Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@...>:

> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 12:00:01 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Is anyone using the 250GB WD disk in a ThinkPad T43?
>> Any complaints?
>
> Hi,
>
> I think you are referring to this disk:
>
> 2.5" WD Scorpio 250GB WD2500BEVE
>
> It works in a T43 so far. However, you get a warning at each power on
> because the BIOS detects a hard disk with an unknown firmware. The T43
> use PATA disks on a SATA port. It is possible that unknown firmware
> cause errors with such a setup, so you get a warning. Google for "error
> 2010" for more details.
>
> Regards,
> Tino
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[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh-2]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Matthias Runge wrote:
> This question may sound silly, but I wonder if anyone has tried a SATA
> disk directly (instead of using the PATA-SATA-bridge)

Where would you plug it?  There appears to have some bay adapters for the
T43 that advertise themselves as SATA, but we only know for sure the T60
supports such a bay adapter natively.  Until someone gets one and report, we
are assuming there are now bay adapters with a PATA-SATA bridge for the T43.

(and no, they are not from Lenovo :p).

For the internal bay, AFAIK, you'd need to hard-hack your planar card in a
very non-nice way to bypass the bridge and route the SATA signals to the HD.

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