Chris,
This doesn't sound like a BIOS problem to me. I have used much
larger H/D's than the 15GB you're using with great results. Are you sure you
have FDisk'ed and formatted the H/D correctly? The H/D should run fine with
that BIOS release.
John Levanger
Savannah, GA
>I have a Thinkpad 600 using the IBET53WW BIOS. The battery is dead, much
>like most other batteries that came with this model. However, since I
>recently bought a hard disk (a 15gb Hitachi), my laptop gives me an error
>174 with this disk only. Other drives I have tried (5gb and 1.2gb) seem to
>work fine without any errors. I have tried using the Hitachi utility to
>adjust the hard disk size to 8gb and even 2gb (on an older p133 laptop),
but
>I still get Error 174.
>My question is, would this problem be rectified with a BIOS update? My BIOS
>is only one down from the current version. Updating it also seems tricky
>since I cannot easily afford a new battery. I saw some posts in here about
>updating the BIOS using phlash.exe, but since there is no platform file for
>thinkpad's, and since the file extensions are different (.fl1 and .fl2 vs
>.fl1 and .fl3), I am not willing to risk this.
>Any suggestions? I really can't return the drive, as it does work, just not
>in my system, and I really would like to get this working.
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