[ltp] Upgrade hard drive

James Knott linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:16:13 -0500


Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> Quoting James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com>:
>   
>> John Jason Jordan wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:26:02 -0500
>>> James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> dijo:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>>> Isn't there some kind of whitelist of accepted disks in thinkpad's bios?
>>>>>           
> [snip]
>   
>> That sort of thing will force me to buy my next notebook from other than
>> Lenovo. It's just one more reason to avoid them. They certainly don't do
>> things the way IBM did.
>>
>>     
>
> IIRC, IBM did the same thing with WiFi cards back 3-5 years ago.
>
> Jeffrey
>   
WiFi cards you don't often change and you can use external ones. Drives
are a bit different in that respect.


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