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

it was.

 

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All items offered for sale here must be posted in the marketplace forum, be in compliance with the BST Rules and use the BST Form. If you want to sell this here, that's where you got to do it.

 

interesting.

here's what i'd want to see:
1: boot times with and without 150 Mbps cap
2: application launch times with and without 150 Mbps cap
3: internal file copy times with and without 150 Mbps cap

the goal is to prove outside of synthetic benchmarks that removing the cap makes a tangible difference.   do that before you go asking for money.   you may even need an independent tester to make sure you aren't altering the results.

my two cents.

 

Note: The name of this thread is "willing to pay for a solution". People wants to pay for 3,0 Gb/s BIOS mod - I just give them such an ability .

Anyway, I want everybody to know that I solved the problem and there is no SATA II speed limit on T61/X61 now.

 

seriously, congrats on "solving" it.   i'd still like to see definitive evidence that the lack of sequential speed limit makes a difference, just to put the arguments to rest once and for all.

 

Great that you've solved it. Obviously the T61p users would like a try-before-you buy system.

Can you donationware the bios fix like the 1810tray is here. I'm happy set the second post of this thread to support that method of distribution.

Based on the poll of this thread you should get at least 11 donations for your efforts.

 

I don't care if the title of the thread is abracadabra. If you want to sell something here, it must comply with the rules for selling item(s) here like everyone else. I was nice enough to lay them out for you. I would agree erik in that some proof would probably help sales, congratulations on your feat nonetheless.

 

Let me explain some things. I'm just a BIOS modder, and was asked many times to remove SATA speed limit on T61/X61. Now I've made it. Note that during two years nobody could make such a mod and from that point of view - I've "solved" the problem.

As for evidences of improved performance: there are SSD tests on T61/X61 and the same SSD's was tested on other machines which have no SATA speed limit. You can compare and make a reasonable conclusion.

I must say that you was the first person who had paid my attention on this issue. But unfortunately I didn't have time then.

If paypal would allow to receive money in my country I would simply place here two links (to BIOS and to my paypal account). But at the moment the only way for me to receive foreign donation is Western Union. I know it's not the best method but there is nothing else.

I agree with you: we have to test my mod. Maybe lenovo had very important reasons to set SATA II speed to 1,5 Gb/s limit, what if there were data losses on full SATA II speeds? I'm ready to provide my BIOS patch to the person with high-speed SSD drive provided he will not upload the patch to public servers.

ZaZ, please tell me what should I do. I should create a thread in the marketplace forum and make the further replies on this problem there?

 

Yes. I don't mean to come down hard on you. It is not a personal thing, but if we let one person do it, then it's a slippery slope if you catch my drift. Also you might want to post this on ThinkPads.com forum, where you'll have a larger audience of effected users.