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Using Seagate 5.4K100 HDD in T43

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Using Seagate 5.4K100 HDD in T43

#1 Post by GlobetrotterDoug » Sat May 28, 2005 9:09 am

I just bought a Seagate 5400 rpm 100G HD model # ST9100823A. When I try to use it in my T43p (2668g5u), I get the message that it needs a firmware upgrade or is not supported. But it seems to work OK. How can I fix this or am I just SOL? It works fine in my T41. Thanks.

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#2 Post by mysbca » Sat May 28, 2005 11:34 am

The Seagate is not on the list of officially supported harddrives. This harddrive check appears to be implemented starting with BIOS v1.04.
I guess you can roll the BIOS back to v1.02 or v1.03a to avoid this warning.

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Re: Using Seagate 5.4K100 HDD in T43

#3 Post by Francis » Thu Jun 02, 2005 4:23 am

I encounter the same problem with my T43 after I replaced my HD with a Hitachi Travelstar model:HTS726060M9AT00. I sent email to Hitachi for help and they said that there is no problem to use that HD with the T43, but the drive is of a Generic part number and not with IBM OEM part number and that is why I got that warning when I turn on my T43.

By the way, all these happened after I upgrade the bios from 1.04 to 1.05


GlobetrotterDoug wrote:I just bought a Seagate 5400 rpm 100G HD model # ST9100823A. When I try to use it in my T43p (2668g5u), I get the message that it needs a firmware upgrade or is not supported. But it seems to work OK. How can I fix this or am I just SOL? It works fine in my T41. Thanks.

Doug
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#4 Post by zaku » Mon Dec 18, 2006 2:03 am

i came to a deal with this same hard drive seagate ST9100823A
it works fine in the T41 and not T43? how about T42? anyone knows?
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#5 Post by pianowizard » Mon Dec 18, 2006 2:49 am

zaku wrote:i came to a deal with this same hard drive seagate ST9100823A
it works fine in the T41 and not T43? how about T42? anyone knows?
The T42 won't give you this error message.
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#6 Post by zaku » Mon Dec 18, 2006 12:46 pm

thanks! then i'll go for the hdd :D
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