Using Seagate 5.4K100 HDD in T43

[GlobetrotterDoug]

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

[mysbca]

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.

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-59096

[Francis]

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

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

[zaku]

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?

[pianowizard]

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.

[zaku]

thanks! then i'll go for the hdd