R40 Hard drive upgrade to Seagate 160GB

[skript]

hello,

I want to upgrade the hard drive of my R40 to the Seagate ST9160821A 160GB drive. I have some questions concerning this upgrade:

- the current BIOS of my R40 is 'as shipped', I haven't done any upgrades. Will I need to upgrade the BIOS in order to have this drive recognized by the BIOS/OS (have the support for 48-bit LBA, 137GB limit) ? Or is the 48-bit LBA ON by default ?

- what happens when I will try to have my system restored using Recovery CDs created from the HPA from the original 40GB drive ? Will the system be successfully restored to the 160GB drive, even though the size of the drive is different and the fact that this drive is actually a 3rd party drive ?

thanks for your advice

[Terrahawk]

regarding your second question:

see http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=42847

[ElbertR]

Regarding your first question, it is always a good idea to upgrade your bios first.

Not sure how old your R40 is, but I had no problem installing the same hard disk in my A31p and using the full capacity.

[Jim_N]

I'm curious whether you went ahead with the hard drive upgrade and, if so, how it worked out.