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ThinkVantage Active Protection
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 7:27 am
by dmdsoftware
Does the ThinkVantage Active Protection also protect hard drives in the ultrabay slot?
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 11:20 am
by GomJabbar
Yes it does. If you check the summary of changes for the program, you will see that that feature was included.
Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 5:35 pm
by tuonganle
This was what I saw on Lenovo's site:
The Active Protection system can be used only with the primary hard drive on Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows 2000. The protection system will not control a second hard drive that is either attached externally to your computer or installed in your computer's Ultrabay.
You can read the full info here:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-53167
Not sure how current that information is.
Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 5:39 pm
by BillMorrow
the above indicated lenovo document was last updated 2006-02-06..
so it MIGHT be out of date..
no reason the active protection should NOT protect any compatible drive in the ultrabay..
Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 5:47 pm
by tuonganle
This is the most current documentation on updates to the Active Protection System:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... 58650.html
In the summary of changes, there doesn't appear to be any mention of protection changes for a secondary hard drive, externally or in the Ultrabay. Unfortunately, my T60 doesn't have an extra hard drive in the Ultrabay to test.
Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 10:22 pm
by dmdsoftware
tuonganle wrote:This is the most current documentation on updates to the Active Protection System:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... 58650.html
In the summary of changes, there doesn't appear to be any mention of protection changes for a secondary hard drive, externally or in the Ultrabay. Unfortunately, my T60 doesn't have an extra hard drive in the Ultrabay to test.
I guess you mean by test would be to try loading data off the drive and shake the machine a bit (enough to trigger the Active Protection) and see if the data continues to read off the drive?
In response to the first reply on my original post, I looked up the change log file for Active Protection. It claims that support was added for Ultrabay devices from builds >= 1.31, but I'm planing on testing the validity of that statement.
Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 11:33 pm
by kulivontot
I'm about 99% certain that the ultrabay is turned off by APS.