[ltp] Re: UltraBay for dual boot

Kris Steenhaut linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:11:46 +0100


lou schreef:

>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.
>
Indeed.

> I looked up 
>the error message at IBM and it said the firmware level may be wrong.
>
Bullshit of course. Lenovo has hardcoded the serial number and specs of 
the inbuild original disk into the bios. That's why.

-- 
Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris