Re: [Thinkpad] 40GB HD in i-Series 1200?

On Wednesday 09 July 2003 18:32, Michael Geary wrote:
> > Yesterday, together with a serviceman at a local computer
> > shop I inserted a 40GB drive (Fujitsu MHT-2040AT) into
> > my i-Series - and it works fine! For those who are interested,
> > my BIOS version is V1.00R (I haven't tried newer version
> > due to the lack of a floppy drive).
>
> I don't know about the i series, but BIOS updates for other ThinkPads do
> not require floppy drives. Check IBM's support site for details--there
> may be a non-floppy BIOS updater for your machine.

Well, another problem is that I was running LINUX exclusively on that
machine (and at work we also only use LINUX) and the BIOS update is only
available as a DOS executable (no, it can't be unzipped under LINUX). I
might have been able to execute it in the LINUX DOS emulator and make a
bootable CD from the resulting disk image, but that wasn't worth the
trouble.

Felix

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