[ltp] Re: T43 report

Alejandro Bonilla linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 04 Apr 2005 10:02:59 -0600


>>Are you sure your Fujitsu HD is SATA ?
>>I had a look in a T43, and while the interface is SATA, and the harddrive
>>is seen as sda, the hard itself seems to be PATA (Fujitsu MHT 2080 AH).
>>I even pulled out the hard, and the connector seems PATA ( a lot of pins).
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>I actually had the drive out this last weekend, and you are correct,
>the drive has a standard PATA interface, and the replacement drive I
>put in also has a PATA interface.  The replacement drive, the 60GB
>Toshiba from my old notebook, worked fine.
>
>However, the kernel is definately using the SATA driver from libata to
>access the hard disk. 
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>
I was reading the specs of this laptop, and looks like it does have Sata 
Support, I don't tend to not believe what people say, but... Are you 
really really sure it ain't sata? :)