[ltp] Re: UltraBay for dual boot

[lou]

On Friday 27 January 2006 20:58, Josh wrote:
> Will the Ultrabay work with any laptop hard drive, or
> do I have to buy a special hard drive from Lenovo?
>
> Has anyone done this and is it a good solution?
>
> Thanks

I can't speak for Ultrabay but I had a problem with a Hitachi (may be a 
Toshiba, not sure and it is not here right now) booting up from regular drive 
slot. As I said, it would boot, but only after hitting the esc. I looked up 
the error message at IBM and it said the firmware level may be wrong. They 
did not have firmware on their site for that model drive. I later got a 
Fujitsu drive and that works well (the original was Fujitsu). I picked up an 
extra carrier and header (don't know what the official name is) from eBay and 
just swap out the main drive (rarely need to right now). The drive I am using 
for Linux/VMWare is 80 G, 5400 RPM. I used an older 4800 RPM drive for a 
while but it is noticeably slower (but does run cooler). 

I have found a reasonable compromise for my performance versus ACPI problems. 
I installed KPowersave and it improves battery life and I can suspend to disk 
(hibernate) but can't do a normal suspend without locking up the machine. I 
will try living with that. I like to suspend when transporting to save some 
time. The hibernate is faster than startup. So far, I am pleased with how it 
is running, but haven't tried everything, like DVD's and burning CD's etc. 
Good luck in what ever you decide. 

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  Lou

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