From: adam quantrill (adam_quantrill_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 04:16:09 EST
if you haven't got a PS2 command, and no floppy,
you could try getting it on there by
a) download from the net
b) put the hd into another machine
c) try a smartmedia or compactflash adapter
--- Ray Bayles <canyonlands_at_theriver.com> wrote:
> It is extremely rare for a controller to go bad...
> suggest you look at
> your device manager, remove all floppy drive
> devices, then let Windows
> re-install.
>
> It is also possible there is a bad connection or
> cable.
>
> Sounds to me as though somebody disabled the floppy
> drive... perhaps
> to extend battery power.
>
> Ray
>
> Stan Mocek wrote:
> >
> > A while ago, I posted to the list about a friend's
> 755C that appeared to
> > have a non-functional floppy drive (internal). She
> just now was able to
> > drop off the ThinkPad and I had gotten a
> replacement drive for the 755C.
> > With the old drive or the replacement drive, in
> Easy Setup the floppy
> > icon is grayed out. Using the Control A function
> to test, I cannot check
> > the floppy because it is greyed out there also.
> There is no PS2 program
> > loaded on the hard drive, so I cannot use that
> command to try and
> > activate it. Would the floppy icon being greyed
> out on both places in
> > Easy Setup be a symptom of a bad controller?
> >
> > --
> > Stan Mocek
> > mocek_at_azb.com
>
> --
>
>
> Life is too short to be taken seriously.
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