T61/X61 SATA II 1.5 Gb/s cap - willing to pay for a solution

[lead_org]

what does TRIM command have to do with the T410s bios firmware? i thought it is only limited to the OS and the SSD drive....

[gabblgob]

what does TRIM command have to do with the T410s bios firmware? i thought it is only limited to the OS and the SSD drive....

You may be right, I meant the SSD firmware...
Samsung says the SSD model installed in my t410s supports TRIM, the diagnostic software says opposite. I am not sure what and where is the problem.

[erik]

You may be right, I meant the SSD firmware...
Samsung says the SSD model installed in my t410s supports TRIM, the diagnostic software says opposite. I am not sure what and where is the problem.

i've had four of the recent lenovo-issued 1.8" samsung MLC SSDs and they don't seem to slow down.   they seem to have internal garbage collection rather than TRIM.

[jketzetera]

I cannot remember where I read it (it was before TRIM existed on SSDs) but someone stated that Samsung then sold their SSDs with the NAND in a fully "dirty" state, which resulted in the constant benchmarked performance.

[gabblgob]

i've had four of the recent lenovo-issued 1.8" samsung MLC SSDs and they don't seem to slow down. they seem to have internal garbage collection rather than TRIM.

Is this better than TRIM or at least has it the same result? It would be great news

[erik]

not sure if it's better but i can't say my intel SSDs run any quicker than my samsung SSDs in performing everyday tasks.   we'll see how things go long-term.   i'll probably upgrade before wearing anything out.

[Delphis]

I get an error code 'Error during flash. Error code = 99 (179 )' when I try and update the BIOS on this T61. It's model number is 8892-02U .. T7500, 128MB nvidia 140m ..

Any hints?

I'm using the 'BIOS update' from CD, the one *without* the Ctrl-Fn switch. Embedded controller on the BIOS display says 1.06 .. not sure if that helps?

[middleton]

Unfortunately I don't know what this error code means.
Try Windows flashing instead. If you have Windows 64-bit installed, then either create BartPE bootable CD and use it to flash the BIOS or install Windows 32-bit on another partition and flash the BIOS under it.

[Delphis]

That did the trick.

I happened to have the hard drive still around that was in the machine when I got it, and that was helpfully installed with Windows 7 32-bit.

I booted the machine with the Windows 7 32-bit HD, Ran the WINUPTP.EXE and it did its stuff. Shut off and restarted with my Ubuntu 64 bit installation (on my SSD) and all is good.

[    1.640115] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[    1.690997] ata3.00: ACPI cmd ef/02:00:00:00:00:a0 (SET FEATURES) succeeded
[    1.691006] ata3.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:a0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[    1.691009] ata3.00: ACPI cmd ef/10:03:00:00:00:a0 (SET FEATURES) filtered out
[    1.741008] ata3.00: ATA-8: OCZ-AGILITY2, 1.11, max UDMA/133

Getting 180+MB/sec instead of the 120 before. Great, thanks! I'll be donating asap.


Update: Changed RAM to my Kingston Hyper-X and am getting 208MB/sec transfer on the SSD

[iloveant]

Hi, Middleton,

Thanks. Now my SSD is running at 3 Gigabit model. I have donated $20 to the Paypal account few minutes ago. You did a wonderful work. Shame on Lenovo.

A Chinese T61 user in Louisville, KY.

Here is my T61.
ThinkPad T61 6465 57U
T7100(1.8GHz 2 MB L2cache)
Intel 965GM chipset family
4G (2X2G) PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM 667 MHz
Intel SSDSA2M080G2GC
320GB (7200 rpm) HDD 16M in a UltraBase
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 (resolution 1280x900)
Intel 82566 MM Ethernet
ThinkPad 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini-PCI Express Adapter (replaced Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG)

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