What new HDD for T43p?

[lukee]

Hello folks,
I'm freshman here. I want to ask you, what type of HDD to buy with using on T43p? I've Hitachi 60GB 7200rpm now (no 2010 error). What is largest drive approved by IBM? If I will buy IBM's non-approved HDD, how long is a delay during boot-up informing non-approved HDD?

Thank you! (sorry for my English, I'm from Czech)

[ajkula66]

Welcome to the forum!

The largest IBM-issued drive was 100 GB at the time.

Fujitsu MHV2120AH (120GB/5400rpm) is the largest non-IBM drive that doesn't throw an error.

With the latest BIOS, you'll lose less than 10 seconds while the machine goes through the "2010" prompt.

Hope this helps.

[lukee]

Hello, thank you for reply! I found Seagate ST9160821A (160GB drive) for a good price.
According to ThinkWiki.org, this drive should work out of the box, but there is note, that infamous 2010-error comes up during bootup. Why is this drive included into out of the box drives when error 2010 persist?
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_w ... hard_disks

[anthony]

What about the WD Scorpio 320GB? errors?

[Harryc]

@lukee, you'd have to ask the author of the Wiki article.
@anthony, it will work fine but it will throw a 2010 error on boot.