[Thinkpad] TP 390E Hard Drive Upgrade Options

[Ben]

I've never seen any indication of SMART capability during boot up,
I must confess. No message ever comes up to say it's enabled for
example. However, just today I noticed this in some online
literature describing the 390E:

"Disk controller: EIDE / PCI 2.1 / one internal disk / disk can be
removed to upgrade by customer / supports two internal disks/ 13ms
read / 14ms write / S.M.A.R.T."

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pcinstitute/psref/twbook.pdf

(page 36)

And there's mention of it as a feature in this publicity for the 
4.3GB Travelstar (DKLA-24320):

http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/85256AB8006A31E587256A7D0059E1B5/$file/dkla-2-english.pdf

I wondered if it had been disabled for some reason.



 --- On Wed 10/25, Bruce Markowitz wrote:
From: Bruce Markowitz
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:48:14 -0400
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] TP 390E Hard Drive Upgrade Options

On a 390E?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben" 
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 2:42 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] TP 390E Hard Drive Upgrade Options

It was a DeathStar.
That is the usual sudden death.

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Is it strange that there wasn't any warning from the 
S.M.A.R.T. drive monitor?

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