ThinkVantage Active Protection

[dmdsoftware]

Does the ThinkVantage Active Protection also protect hard drives in the ultrabay slot?

[GomJabbar]

Yes it does. If you check the summary of changes for the program, you will see that that feature was included.

[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.

[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so it MIGHT be out of date..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..

[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.

[dmdsoftware]

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.

[kulivontot]

I'm about 99% certain that the ultrabay is turned off by APS.