From: peter machule (machule_at_freewwweb.com)
Date: Sun May 28 2000 - 09:18:30 EDT
Bill , I think your'e wrong on this one . ;-}
Or maybe not ....what actual caddy was this drive put in ?
The 2.1GB was in a "modern" shell so its flex cable should not need surgery.
BTW only the last two pins need to be isolated on the " old" shells , not all 4.
Since the drive and caddy work in the ultrabay this one is a puzzler .
ie. It's not a bios thing , bad drive , bad cabling thing.
By " the TP doesn't even recognize it" are you saying that in the BIOS the Drive
Icon is greyed out ? Or it simply will not boot.?
Have you checked your Bios version .....just because ;-}
Also tell the bios to "initialize " and also check the Boot order, though again
since you can boot with your other drive this should be a non issue.
I only mention this because I was on the phone once with Tech support about a non booting drive
in a Thinkpad 760E and the darn thing suddenly started working after we did all these things .
I had already done them before phoning ...several times, but doing it again in a different order
fixed things .
BTW the 4GN 4.3GB work fine in the 760's .
..peter..
Using FDISK , the boot partion shows "A " for active ...right ?
...peter...
> Steve..
> 760 will recognise up to 6.4gig, and maybe more if a bios overlay is
> used...
> (more on this some other post)
> your problem with the 4gig is the same old addressing thing..
> the machine is telling the HDD that its a slave.. when it should be the
> master drive..
>
> you're trying to reuse the original 760 HDD shell.. it either needs
> surgery, or the 4 addressing jumpers need surgery or you need one of my
> generic 760 HDD shells..
>
>
> "Steve C." wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know if a 4.8Gb Travelstar 6GN drive can
> > be made to work in a TP760EL? I just got one and when
> > I put it in place of the 2Gb drive the TP doesn't even
> > recognize it. Does it need another BIOS update to make
> > it work or is 2Gb the limit? I put it in my Dell
> > Latitude XPiCD and it works fine. It even works as a
> > second drive in the TP's ultrabay when in a hard drive
> > adapter. I could partition and format the drive and
> > copy files to it but was not able to boot from it.
> > Seems strange that the drive will work in the ultrabay
> > but not in the primary bay.
> >
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>
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