If you got it with the thinkpad, it will have an IBM/Lenovo firmware. Ask
them for a fix. They might have broken NCQ while adding immediate unload
and security extensions to the original Hitachi firmware.
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"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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