[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).
>>
>>
>
>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.
>
>
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? :)