[ltp] HDAPS firmware for Hitachi 5K100 drive? (was: Re: New HDD: hdaps support?)

[Andrew Barr]

Whoopie wrote:

> Instructions how to do it are here:
> http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=20858

Okay, I read that and a few other threads and I gather that you need to match 
up your current FW revision with a file from either the disk images linked to 
there or the Lenovo/IBM hard disk firmware ISO. The retail FW has an "O" in 
the revision string and in the IBM OEM firmware that changes to an "I". My 
disk has "MBZOA60A" as the firmware rev. string, and looking at a few other 
threads on thinkpads.com it looks like IBM and/or Lenovo have never released 
an OEM compliment to this firmware. Does that mean I'm SOL or am I not 
understanding something? This hard drive model number and firmware revision 
business is frying my brain (they don't seem to make logical sense--just 
meaningless strings). Not to mention there's the parallel issue of the T43 
SATA bridge, which it's not always clear which issue forum posters are 
talking about (one of the many reasons I hate web forums).

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