From: Dominique Pivard (domi_at_kenavo.fi)
Date: Mon Mar 19 2001 - 02:56:19 EST
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 at 11:42 PM you, Jeff Knowlton <knowlton_at_calarts.edu>,
said:
>I recently picked up a 560e with out a floppy drive. I was under the
>impression that with I could use the floppy drive off my 730t with the
>560 cable. Am I mistaken about this?
I don't know if it's the case with the 730, but all the ThinkPads I've had
(701/560/570/600) share the same floppy drive. I would think you only need
a proper cable for the 560.
>When I tried to boot from a Linux install disk nothing happened, and the
>machine went strait into windows 95.
This could indicate that the floppy drive isn't included in the Startup
sequence in BIOS (press F1 at boot time to check), or that it's included
after the hard drive. Can you operate the floppy drive when in Win95? If
so, it would mean the drive is OK. If not, you may have a hardware
problem.
HTH, Dominique
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