Re: [Thinkpad] PC card follies, TP 560x, Win98Lite won't mount 2 large cards at once

ThinkPads are know to have resource issues with PCMCIA IDE drives in 98.
That may be part of the problem.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew in Ann Arbor" <andrewaa@comcast.net>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 9:50 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] PC card follies, TP 560x, Win98Lite won't mount 2 large
cards at once

> Hello all
> I have not found any large cheap (2Gb) cards for my 560.
> So I decided to figure out why my 560 won't recognize 2 large CF cards
> at once.
>
> If I have my 1Gb Toshiba CF card as D: the computer doesn't show a 512
> Mb Sandisk CF card in the second slot.
> If I click on the PC card icon in the tray I see both cards but Windows
> explorer only shows D:
> In a DOS window "E:" gives "invalid drive".
> A Sandisk 15 Mb CF card shows up fine and the 512 Mb card works fine by
> itself.
> A Sandisk 80 Mb CF card works in the second slot as does a Sandisk 175
> Mb PCMCIA card (former Omnibook C: drive).
>
>
> My question is:
> Is this an inherent shortcoming of WIN98 or is there something wrong?
> My other 560 with Win2K shows both large cards with no problem.
> Perhaps another reason to upgrade to Win 2K?
>
> I have observed that the cards that work with the Toshiba 1 Gb card are
> all identified as "ATA FlashDisk" but the 512 Mb card (that doesn't
> work) is identified as "IDE/ESDI hard disk controller"
> Perhaps WIN98 can't imagine more than 2 IDE devices and Win2K can?
>
> Comments?
>
> TIA
> --
> Andrew in Ann Arbor
> technology is the answer, what was the question?
>
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