Is T61 e-SATA capable

[NIXin]

Can someone from Lenovo at least confirm and acknowledge that the problem is still there on X61s?

Please, we need at least some information!

[capacitor]

Same here on a R61i (T series forums I know). I would be happy to test beta BIOS updates.

Message Edited by capacitor on 08-12-2008 07:48 AM

[lurker]

My t61p has still no speed on esata at PCMCIA... when will a new Bios released to fix this?

lurker 

[Mainframer]

I'm still waiting with the rest of everyone else. In my case, it's a T60p.

It's been more than a month since Lenovo posted on this topic and a simple update from the company would be the right thing to do for the customers. We do matter, right?

[NIXin]

Yes, we're all still here, waiting. In my case it's X61s.

[aaricia]

I just updated my T61 7658CTO to Bios 2.20-1.08 and USB read spead is still at around 15MB/s.

Anybody else experience this with a T61?

When  will this be fixed for all models?

[lurker]

@aaricia have you checked several usb devices to verify this? I have actually no problems at USB with the latest Bios and my T61p. BUT as the topic says is that when i use a PC Card also called PCMCIA for ESATA the Speed is around 10 MB/s and thats really poor...

lurker 

[aaricia]

Thanks for the reply Lurker.

Yes, I have tried several USB devices (stick and external hard drive) that work well on other computers.

Cant get USB up to speed still stuck at about 15 MB/sec...

[2xodDOTcom]

I can confirm that the X61 has a new BIOS that has corrected this problem.

I have done testing with both the T61 and X61 models, and the latest BIOS have a much higher PCMCIA transfer rate. Now the maximum performance should be around 50 MB/sec.

USB performance should not be an issue. 15 MB/sec is about normal for USB, but it depends on the device you are using.

The maximum performance from USB should be around 35 MB/sec, but it depends more on your device.

Here are some USB benchmarks that show a minimum speed of 26 MB/sec with a fast hard drive. You might have a slow hard drive.

http://2xod.com/articles/USB_Enclosure_Benchmarks/

[NIXin]

That's kind of strange. It seams that for on some versions (revisions of the thinkpad's motherboard?) the updated BIOS works and on some, it doesn't.

As you can see here:

 

This is on my X61s. Looks capped at 13.3MB/s. Maybe it's the thing with the "S" subversion - but the updated BIOS didn't correct the problem on my side :-(

I'm waiting for Lenovo's fix or acknowlegment of the problem.

Message Edited by NIXin on 08-20-2008 03:44 PM