[ltp] is it possible to boot a SATA drive from Ultrabay on a T410?
Mario Theodoridis
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 7 Nov 2010 16:00:39 -0800
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On Sunday, 7. 11 2010 15:00:26 Pedro Ribeiro wrote:
> Sweet!
>
> Any idea what kind of performance I can get from the ultrabay sata
> controller?
>
> In other words, would an ssd perform the same in the ultrabay?
The ultrabay is simply another SATA channel. I don't see any reason why
performance should be different.
> Regards,
> Pedro
>
> On 06/11/2010, Dan M. <likuidkewl@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I can't say for a T410 but I have done this on my r61. You simply
> > select which drive to boot from. Simple :)
> >
> > On 06/11/2010, Pedro Ribeiro <pedrib@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> ...
> >> I have to go through all this trouble because the Windows drive is
> >> encrypted, and changing anything is a breach of the company policy.
Even running the windows system off the physical harddrive using a virtualizer
such as virtualbox or vmware?
> >> Is this possible? Does anyone have similar requirements and how do you
> >> solve such a problem?
On my W500 as well as my previous T42P, hitting F12 upon boot brings up the
boot menu, listing everything Sata, usb and maybe even firewire that it finds,
and allows you to boot off of it.
Mario
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Sunday, 7. 11 2010 15:00:26 Pedro Ribeiro wrote:<br>
> Sweet!<br>
><br>
> Any idea what kind of performance I can get from the ultrabay sata<br>
> controller?<br>
><br>
> In other words, would an ssd perform the same in the ultrabay?<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>The ultrabay is simply another SATA channel. I don't see any reason why performance should be different.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>> Regards,<br>
> Pedro<br>
><br>
> On 06/11/2010, Dan M. <likuidkewl@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
> > I can't say for a T410 but I have done this on my r61. You simply<br>
> > select which drive to boot from. Simple :)<br>
> ><br>
> > On 06/11/2010, Pedro Ribeiro <pedrib@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
> >> Hi,<br>
> >><br>
> >> ...<br>
> >> I have to go through all this trouble because the Windows drive is<br>
> >> encrypted, and changing anything is a breach of the company policy.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Even running the windows system off the physical harddrive using a virtualizer such as virtualbox or vmware?<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>> >> Is this possible? Does anyone have similar requirements and how do you<br>
> >> solve such a problem?<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>On my W500 as well as my previous T42P, hitting F12 upon boot brings up the boot menu, listing everything Sata, usb and maybe even firewire that it finds, and allows you to boot off of it.<br>
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