From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Sun May 26 2002 - 02:19:25 EDT
have you tried downloading the firmware update to the HDD..
it might be it will load from the HDD AND a floppy..
i have not looked at this recently, so you should read the readme.txt file..
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Winston" <mattwinston_at_ameritech.net>
To: "Colin Tunnah" <c.tunnah_at_btinternet.com>; <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: T21 DVD Firmware update
> Don't know if the USB floppy is bootable. I have the dock and port rep,
> which allow attachment of an external floppy drive. IBM makes a bootable
> parallel port adapter for the standard Ultraslimbay 2000 floppy drive.
That
> might be an inexpensive solution if you don't have a port rep or dock.
> Matt
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Colin Tunnah" <c.tunnah_at_btinternet.com>
> To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 2:22 PM
> Subject: T21 DVD Firmware update
>
>
> > I have a T21 2647 BHG. I recently bought an Ultrabay 2000 DVD drive and
> > have downloaded the relevant firmware update required from the IBM site.
I
> > have an Ultrabay 2000 floppy drive that came with the machine. To
complete
> > the firmware update it is necessary to boot the machine with the update
> > floppy in the Ultrabay, the obvious problem being that with the floppy
> > Ultrabay inserted in the machine the DVD drive won't be detected! Other
> than
> > buying a USB floopy drive is there any way around this?
> > Thanks
> > Colin
> >
>
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