IBM proprietary harddisk hardware interface?

[wiesl]

Hello!

Is the harddisk hardware interface on the T-series (especiall the T43p) proprietary or is there a standard for 2,5" disks available (link?)?

Can every 2,5" disk be used?

Thank you.

Ciao,
Gerhard

[skystorm]

Hi,

you could try this sticky thread, it should pretty much answer your questions.

In short: IBM uses PATA hard drives in the T43/p series that are, using some kind of adaptor, connected to the SATA interface of the chipset. This leads to some problems as there seems to be some kind of BIOS check for that. See the quoted thread for details.

HTH

[wiesl]

Hi,

you could try this sticky thread, it should pretty much answer your questions.

In short: IBM uses PATA hard drives in the T43/p series that are, using some kind of adaptor, connected to the SATA interface of the chipset. This leads to some problems as there seems to be some kind of BIOS check for that. See the quoted thread for details.

HTH

Ok, that it internally has SATA and a SATA-PATA converter was clear to me.

But the question was whether the hardware connector/power supply is a standard or proprietary.

Ciao,
Gerhard

[kidtriton]

the physical connection is standard.

[simscitizen]

You can use pretty much any standard 2.5" drive without any BIOS warnings as long as you flash down to BIOS 1.03 or below. That's what I'm doing with my 100g Seagate Momentus.

[ludu35]

You can use pretty much any standard 2.5" drive without any BIOS warnings as long as you flash down to BIOS 1.03 or below. That's what I'm doing with my 100g Seagate Momentus.

did you notice any disadvantage after downgrade your BIOS to 1.03?