[ltp] Re: UltraBay for dual boot

Kris Steenhaut linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:01:57 +0100


lou schreef:

>On Saturday 28 January 2006 04:11, Kris Steenhaut wrote:
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>>Bullshit of course. Lenovo has hardcoded the serial number and specs of
>>the inbuild original disk into the bios. That's why.
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>Not so sure about serial number because when I put another Fujitsu (same brand 
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Yes, some TP43 are sold with Fujitsu and others are with Hitachi. The 
deal with Hitachi (which took Lenovo over from IBM, you know, the 5 
years thing) is passed, no now Lenovo can put and mess everything they 
want.

>as drive that came with machine) in the system, it works fine. I find it 
>interesting that purchasing a drive from Lenovo is quite a bit more $$$ than 
>from places like Newegg. Maybe the error message/trap encourages more sales 
>from them. 
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No doubt about that.

-- 
Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris