[ltp] Replace CD Drive In R31

Martin N linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:35:02 +0000


Lo,

At 05:51 16/01/2011, you wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Simon Royal <mrsimonroyal@gmail.com>=
 wrote:
> > Hi

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> > I am not too bothered about bezels, as this=20
> is the usual the sticking point .
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Simon
> >
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>
>when you say it wont boot up do you mean it stays at the thinkpad logo
>or that it just doesn't boot a boot disk? If it is at the thinkpad
>logo it is the drive. There are a lot of devices that will do this. My
>sony ebook reader does this. My Ipod does this. It is just not
>compatible with the bios device probe. Probably because it doesn't
>identify something the bios is waiting for.. who knows. You need to
>stick with H-L drives. They are 100% compatible.


what are "H-L drives" ?

Thanks for your time

Martin N

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