[ltp] Re: Firmware Upgrade for 60GB 7200rpm drives (T41, R50) -- ISO image

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Am Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:27:55 +0000 schrieb William R Sowerbutts:

> Hi all,
> 
> I received an email from IBM this morning announcing a firmware ugprade
> for the 60GB 7200rpm drive used in my T41P. There is no option for doing
> the firmware upgrade without a copy of Windows lying around to extract the
> firmware update image; indeed, the "diskless" upgrade failed to work for
> me with Windows XP, so I was forced to make my own!
> 

In This Case, there is a Vmware a nice tool. After creating a floppy (is
a image on youre disk), you can burn it :-)

> I extracted the disk image to a floppy on a Windows machine and then took
> an image of that to built a bootable "El Torito" ISO.
> 
> I've made this image available below in case anyone would like to upgrade
> their drive but doesn't want to go through the same hassle. Uncompress the
> image with gunzip, burn it to a CD-R or CD-RW with cdrecord, and then boot
> from it (press F12 when the IBM BIOS splash screen appears). The command I
> used was:
> 
> cdrecord -v dev=/dev/hdc fs=16M ./firmware-upgrade-hdd-1.iso
> 
> I have no idea what issues this firmware upgrade addresses, despite having
> read all of the included documentation -- anyone know? I'm guessing it's a
> reliability issue of some sort.
> 
> This image worked for me, but as with all firmware upgrades you should
> exercise caution.
> 
> Download it here:
> 
> http://sowerbutts.com/thinkpad/firmware-upgrade-hdd-1.iso.gz  (744KB)
> 
> I hope this helps someone. Good luck!
> 
> Will
> 
> Here's the original message from IBM:
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Thinkpad <thinkpad@us.ibm.com> -----
> 
> From: Thinkpad <thinkpad@us.ibm.com>
> To: IBM ThinkPad Owner <IBM_ThinkPad_Owner@us.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 26 Feb
> 2004 22:26:59 -0500 Subject: ThinkPad R50, T41 - Mandatory hard disk drive
> firmware update
> 
> Dear IBM Customer,
> 
> IBM has released a mandatory firmware update that may affect your IBM
> ThinkPad R50 or T41 computer.   For details, and to download the update,
> please visit:
> http://www.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=TPAD-HDFIRM
> 
> If you need help or additional information, please contact your nearest
> IBM Support Center:
> http://www.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4HWSE3
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Your IBM Support Center
> 
> <<<Please do not respond to this note.  It has been sent by a service
> machine. >>>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
> _________________________________________________________________________
> William R Sowerbutts                                  will@sowerbutts.com
> Coder / Guru / Nrrrd                                http://sowerbutts.com
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