Re: [Thinkpad] Anyone using an IEEE-1394/Firewire PCMCIA card withT41?

You know, if that was my customers machine and they were having all those
problems, I would wipe the drive (using ERASE from the DFT or WIPE.COM from
IBM) because a format or FDISK does NOT really get rid of everything. THEN I
would do a complete restore. Sometimes that is the only way, and if that
fails, there is some hardware problem.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Starfire CT" <starfirect@hotmail.com>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Anyone using an IEEE-1394/Firewire PCMCIA card
withT41?

> @Deanna - Yes, XP on all the machines I've tried it on. The Sony's have
> 4pin 1394 build in and my Asus has it on the motherboard, but XP simply
> supports it. I did some searches for drivers an ALL of the sites I've
seen
> says the same thing: no drive required. I would plug in a card into a
> desktop but I don't have PCMCIA reader there and this is the only notebook
I
> have at the moment.
>
> @Bruce - There are no extra PCMCIA drives per IBM and they don't have
their
> own FireWire driver - it's all natively supported by XP - AND IBM SUPPORTS
> ME INSTALLING MY OWN COPY OF XP WITHOUT USING THEIR RESTORE OPTION! For
> feck's sake, pay attention: please don't MAKE me post the help document
that
> tells me I can do this if I want to. Further more if you don't have
> anything that is helpful for me on my emails, please stop responding
because
> you are NOT helpful in these situations. The initial crashes were caused
> from IBM driver like Access Connections and AHP and were still happening
> WHEN I USED THE RESTORE DISCs. So how does reinstalling their faulty
> software help me in this or any other problem? It doesn't!
>
> The question I have is if I've got issues with the Intel WiFi card, and
the
> hard drive protection, and the booting off a USB drive, and swapped memory
> with a new module, AND now this PCMCIA issue... well doesn't that strange?
>
> I did order an IBM a/b/g WiFi card tonight to try in the machine sometime
> this week... I'm hoping the IBM drivers are better than the Intel drivers,
> but I also upgraded my WiFi AP to 11g. If I drop that in and it can't
> connect to anything either, it's high time I send the machine in for a new
> motherboard or something.
>
>
> >From: "Bruce Markowitz" <scosgt@worldnet.att.net>
> >To: "Starfire CT" <starfirect@hotmail.com>,<thinkpad@stderr.org>
> >Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Anyone using an IEEE-1394/Firewire PCMCIA card
with
> >T41?
> >Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 20:52:18 -0500
> >
> >Now wait.......
> >Isn't this the machine that you absolutely refused to do an IBM install,
> >instead choosing to use a generic copy of XP and manually install the
> >drivers????
> >If that is the case , it seems to me that we have been down this road
> >before - you are probably missing some needed drivers and files.
> >I have had a very hard time educating people that laptops are DIFFERENT
> >than
> >desktops and they just don't work right if you don't do a proper setup,
> >which is always best when done with the factory recovery CD.
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Starfire CT" <starfirect@hotmail.com>
> >To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
> >Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 4:06 PM
> >Subject: [Thinkpad] Anyone using an IEEE-1394/Firewire PCMCIA card with
> >T41?
> >
> >
> > > I've gotten two different PCMCIA cards to try to hook up an external
HD
> >via
> > > FireWire. One card has 3 ports on it, the other has 2 ports. XP
> >recognizes
> > > the card just fine.
> > >
> > > When I use the 3 port card with my external HD/enclosure, it finds the
> >drive
> > > for a second and then loses it. When I use the 2 port card, it stays
> > > visible but XP tells me it has issues when writing to the drive
because
> >it
> > > might be "missing". In all trials I've hooked up the drives to an
> >external
> > > power supply, so they are definately getting enough power to spin.
> >Without
> > > the adapater the 2 port sends NO power at all and the 3 port sends
some
> >but
> > > not enough to fully spin the drive.
> > >
> > > The current drive works fine in its current enclosure via the USB2
port.
> > > I've tried the cards with different enclosures and different drives
(and
> >all
> > > of this hardware has worked fine when I used them with the on-board
1394
> > > ports of my old Sony notebooks and on my current desktop (ASUS onboard
> > > 1394)) so I doubt it's either of them. The PCMCIA cards came from
> >different
> > > source and made by different manufacturers so I can't believe they're
> >both
> > > shot, but I've only got access to one notebook so I can't test that
> >theory.
> > >
> > > So has anyone else tried this? I'm beginning to wonder if I've gotten
a
> > > "troubled" machine here... the USB support is iffy: booting doesn't
work
> > > with anything but a floppy drive and only a couple enclosures have
> >worked
> > > 100% - it chokes on USB/HD's or USB Keydrives. My Intel WiFi card is
> >iffy:
> > > the current one works most times (assuming the crashing has been
driver
> > > related) but when I got a replacement card, it wouldn't connect to ANY
> > > network (and it sees three of them). Now 2 out of 2 FireWire/PCMCIA
> >cards
> > > act weird, whenever a drive is plugged in.
> > >
> > > And yet I still love the notebook. Go figure... I don't know that I
can
> > > part with it long enough for service, though. I mean I would if I had
> >to
> > > and there was definately something wrong, but sending it in just
> >"because
> > > it's been sorta weird" seems like it's a waste of time.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
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