Lenovo (IBM) Official Options Only Upgrades

[BillB]

Does anyone know when Lenovo started requiring only official
OPTIONS hard drive upgrades for Thinkpads?
I put a 80G Hitachi 7200RPM (7K100) drive in my T21
(2647-8AU) and don't get the reported BOOT message as reported on these forums.
I'm going to replace the T21 with a T30 or T4x and would like to know when it started, by Type/Feature?

[AIX]

http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.ws ... MIGR-60169


Affected configurations:

ThinkPad T43 systems
ThinkPad R52 systems
ThinkPad X41 systems
ThinkPad X41 Tablet systems



http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=11059