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On Friday 20 August 2010, Rhia Knowles wrote: > Beware on replacing that HDD. There is one model and I beleive its the > T42 that has a SATA-IDE bridge and therefore there are 'compatibility > issues' with standard IDE drives. Ones that do work were given custom > IBM Firmware, and if you replace it with a drive which doesnt have the > IBM Firmware, the BIOS will moan every time you boot up (You can > ignore the moan and continue to boot, but it cannot be disabled.) And > as you would expect, because of the custom Firmware, IBM charge about > 3x as much as buying it brown box.... > > OK, i just doublechecked on Http://forum.thinkpads.com and you're fine > on that score, its the T43 that had this issue. T42 takes any IDE/PATA > drive (though something to be aware of should you look to a T43 in > future, apart from that little bit of idiocy, they are sweet machines) Thanks Rhia, useful to know. Another Thinkpad fan by the sound of it. George -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq