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    Is Active Protection System compatible with SATA legacy mode? (T61)

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Mr. Rx, Aug 13, 2007.

  1. Mr. Rx

    Mr. Rx Newbie

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    I just got my new T61 in today. One hell of a step up from my year old Dell E1705.

    I'm going to be dual booting w/ a Linux OS, and there's no support for the SATA controller, so I'll be changing the SATA controller operation from AHCI to compatibility / legacy mode.

    Does ASP still work in Windows without AHCI? I'm assuming it does...

    Is there anything practical that I'm giving up by leaving AHCI mode other than NCQ? Hot swap and a fatter pipe (or NCQ for that matter) doesn't mean anything to me.

    Thanks
     
    Mr. Rx, Aug 13, 2007
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  2. vespoli

    vespoli 402 NBR Reviewer

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    It has been my experience that it does; I have a T60, though. Go ahead and give it a whirl and let us know what happens!
     
    vespoli, Aug 13, 2007
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  3. xnviews

    xnviews Notebook Deity

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    Never mind.
     
    xnviews, Aug 14, 2007
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  4. Tailic

    Tailic Notebook Deity

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    I'm dual booting my T61 and it works fine (ubuntu 7.04) with the hard drive on compatibility mode, I don't notice any hard drive performance loss in Vista either. The only problem is xorg drivers for compiz/beryl are tricky to get working right, along with 4965AGN drivers.

    As for the hard drive active protection, you would need to look up on Thinkwiki and see what enables it under linux.
     
    Tailic, Aug 14, 2007
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