T30 100 GB HDD

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Arabian-Nights · #1 Post by **Arabian-Nights** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:44 am

Hi:

Who can confirm which 100 GB HDDs can be used in a T30? I understand that a Hitachi does not work.

thanks

MadMikeSS · #2 Post by **MadMikeSS** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 9:02 am

I see people mentioning using Hitachi 100GB hdd's in thier T2x's so I would imagine you could use Hitachi with your T30. Where did you hear that you couldn't?

Arabian-Nights · #3 Post by **Arabian-Nights** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 7:26 pm

It is posted on this and other forums that the only Hitachi 100 GB which will work are those sold by IBM/Lenovo.

dsvochak · #4 Post by **dsvochak** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:54 am

The only posting on this forum I can find that indicates there may be problem with certain drives in certain thinkpads is this http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=11059 which is related to "non-supported" drives on T43's giving an error on boot that is an irritant rather than "not working".

It's likely the only other circumstance where a 100gb drive may not work is if the BIOS needs to be updated.

Arabian-Nights · #5 Post by **Arabian-Nights** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:12 pm

I've tried installing a Hitachi 5400 100 GB HDD. It is not recognised by the T30. The BIOS is updated.

What I really need are posts from those who have successfully installed a 100 GB HDD in the T30

dsvochak · #6 Post by **dsvochak** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:41 am

The Hitachi compatibility summary (to be found at http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/compatibility.htm ) indicates that 5k100 drives, including model HTS541010G9AT00 were tested and found to be compatable with various machines, including a T30, model 2366-86U.

You may want to check this thread for suggestions regarding your problem: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?p=121366

jwschmid · #7 Post by **jwschmid** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 9:12 am

Dsvochak,

I have successfully installed Hitachi HTS721010G9AT00's (7200 100's) into my T30 2366-97U with 2.06 Bios. I run 2 100's (main and in the bay).

I used Norton Ghost (old version that runs off floppy disk) and cloned from my 60 gig Hitatchi to the 100GB. No issues! I have upgraded over the years from 60 to 80 and now 100GB...all Hitatchi. The only ones I didn't like were the 5400 80's. Very noisey, one crashed and others seemed to be on their way to crash. Just didn't trust them.

They 100's work great.

I know I don't have the lastest bios, but they have been working great for a couple of months. Fast, quiet and smooth.

Also have 2GB of RAM upgrade which also works just fine.

This machine has been a workhorse and I have more than received my money's worth.

Also make sure you get the memory door upgrade (slightly larger cover). It really makes it run a lot cooler.

Good luck,

John

dsvochak · #8 Post by **dsvochak** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 12:24 pm

Thanks to jwschmid for a direct response to Arabian-Nights original question.

Arabian-Nights · #9 Post by **Arabian-Nights** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:17 pm

Finally was able to get Hitachi 100 GB to boot after cloning with Acronis
thanks for all suggestions.

Torque12 · #10 Post by **Torque12** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:28 pm

I have a T23 and recently bought a SAMSUNG 100GB drive.
The drive is not recognized by the T23 and doesn't spin up at all.

Something is fishy here.
I will investigate further, but at the moment I'm out of ideas.

Any ideas are greatly appreciated!

#11 Post by **JHEM** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:08 pm

Torque12 wrote:I have a T23 and recently bought a SAMSUNG 100GB drive.
The drive is not recognized by the T23 and doesn't spin up at all

Drive's in upside down!

Drive's not fully seated!

Drive's DOA!

Regards,

James

Website · #12 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:13 pm

Do you have the latest BIOS?

1AET62WW (version 1.18)

The latest version can be found here.

Torque12 · #13 Post by **Torque12** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:24 pm

Yes, thanks .. I have 1.18 as for the bios.

UpSideDown?
Yeah, I thought about that as well, but it's installed correctly.
(I compared the socket orientation to the original)

DOA?
Nope, running fine on my desktop (with adapter)

Not fully seated?
I checked that and even installed it without the caseing.
Same thing.

I'm almost sure about the drive not spinning up, but will check again.
The drive is so darn slient it's hard to determine whether it is spinning or not.

Geez ... I want to get this running! Leave alone the $$$ I've invested so far.

Any help is greatly appreciated ...

Cheers!

#14 Post by **JHEM** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:53 pm

Torque12 wrote:Nope, running fine on my desktop (with adapter)

Pleas, PLEASE tell me you didn't FORMAT it while it was attached to your desktop!!!!

Report back......

Regards,

James

Torque12 · #15 Post by **Torque12** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 4:33 am

No, I didn't ... but why should that make a difference?

I just got word from another colleague who wasn't able to get that SAMSUNG 100GB drive to work either.

He resorted to a 80GB one, it works fine.

Any ideas ... ?

dsvochak · #16 Post by **dsvochak** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:38 am

No, I didn't ... but why should that make a difference?

A desktop will read the drive geometry differently than the Thinkpad and a drive formatted in a desktop is generally unreadable when installed in a Thinkpad.

#17 Post by **JHEM** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:11 pm

Torque12 wrote:I just got word from another colleague who wasn't able to get that SAMSUNG 100GB drive to work either.

Are you certain there are NO jumpers installed on the HD?

Can you indeed hear it spin up?

This is very troubling.

What does Samsung say?

Regards,

James

dsvochak · #18 Post by **dsvochak** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:58 pm

You might want to try this:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=22007

Why it would make a difference, I don't know.

thinklad · #19 Post by **thinklad** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:31 pm

I just bought and installed a 100GB drive this past weekend in my T30.

100GB/7200RPM/Hitachi/Travelstar (9.5mm thick)

Had no problems at all, these are the steps I took...

- Put the 100GB drive in a USB drive enclosure.
- Cloned 40GB drive onto 100GB disk with Acronis True Image 9.0.0.2337 (Kept the recovery partition the same size instead of auto scaling).
- Updated the bios (2.09) then the controller (1.07) to the newest versions.
- Swapped the new larger drive into the laptop.

Worked perfectly! Cloning over USB1.1 took 10hrs though.

TonyJZX · #20 Post by **TonyJZX** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:28 pm

My T21 has an incompatibility with Toshiba drives. Crashes both 2000, xp, vista and ubuntu on install!

Hitachi/IBM ok.

Strange.

Website · #21 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:36 pm

Have you done a BIOS update to see if it will help prevent the crashing?

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