[ltp] additional harddisk for t60

Martin Aumueller linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:02:26 +0100


On Wed November 22 2006 10:05, Florian Manschwetus wrote:
> http://www.pro-com.org/nofost.de/Pages/ArticleDetails.aspx?ArticleID=1409&B
>ackUrl=289253524 could someone explain me what is so special with this disk?
> normally it is an hitachi 7k100 which costs normally around 150 euro.

It probably has special IBM firmware enabling fast head-unloading for 
protecting it during drops - e.g. for the queue freeze patches for older 
kernels which can be triggered by hdaps. A regular Hitachi drive does not 
have this (and drives are very sensitive...)