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vibraliner
 Post subject: T30 -> T41 cdrom drive compatible?
PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 7:54 pm 
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are floppy/cd/dvd/etc drives compatible between these T30 & T41?

family coming into town, planning on replacing t41 system board, due to battery that won't charge. Hardware maintenance manual calls for using a floppy to flash the eeprom once the new board is installed. Don't have a floppy drive for the T41.

If that doesn't work, I'll try to boot off an ipod with the maintenance floppy image.

Anyone have any advice/input?

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Harryc
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The T30 uses ultrabay plus drives, the T41 uses ultrabay slim. They are not compatible.
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The maintenance disk will only work from a real floppy. If you boot from an image from a different device, it won't unlock the eeprom. I use a USB floppy.
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Nope this doesn't work

T30 uses UltraBay 2000
T4x Uses Ultrabay Slim


You can use an USB floppy.

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vibraliner
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richk wrote:
The maintenance disk will only work from a real floppy. If you boot from an image from a different device, it won't unlock the eeprom. I use a USB floppy.


So a thumb drive or a cd won't work?
I don't want to buy a USB floppy just for this purpose. Any other ideas?

Thanks in Advance

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bill bolton
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vibraliner wrote:
I don't want to buy a USB floppy just for this purpose.

You can get a USB attached floppy drive for few dollars on eBay. :roll:

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