Thinkpads Forum

I'm sure we are all glad that a nice new bios update came out to fix the high-pitched usb noise. However, it's arrival has brought up a problem -- I've found a bunch of updates on the Lenovo site that system update never told me about! This really bothers me... it basically means that system update is useless if I have to check the website for things that it's missed.

Also, did anyone see the HD firmware update? Apparently you need to burn the iso to a cd. But:

"The hard drive firmware update utility bootable CD does not support USB optical disc drives, PCMCIA/CardBUS optical disc drives, optical disc drives in a docking station bay, or any other drives other than the optical disc drive in the ThinkPad UltraBay."

Uhh, I don't have an ultrabay. How the heck am I supposed to run this update?

I'll probably need to address this issue soon. There are some programs that allow you to load the contents of a floppy drive into memory and then boot from it...maybe it's possible to put together something similar with a CD.

If you have another laptop equipped with SATA, you could take the drive out and execute the firmware upgrade on it.

The more I think about it, the more I think you should be able to create a ram disk and load everything on the CD into it...now executing this concept may be a challenge.

trentblase wrote: Also, did anyone see the HD firmware update? Apparently you need to burn the iso to a cd. But:

"The hard drive firmware update utility bootable CD does not support USB optical disc drives, PCMCIA/CardBUS optical disc drives, optical disc drives in a docking station bay, or any other drives other than the optical disc drive in the ThinkPad UltraBay."

Uhh, I don't have an ultrabay. How the heck am I supposed to run this update?

Only for Toshiba HD it seems.