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

When I see "Lite" anything, I always wonder if that's one of the causes of
issues such as these.

One issue might be the mainboard controller drivers, or may be caused by a
resource conflict.

Keep in mind that W98 could only "see" four primary partitions at once,
others must be logical drives.

Hard to diagnose via email, though I'll tell you that my 560X used to work
very well with CF type II and III cards under W98SE. Now it's a W2000
machine so forgive me for not being able to assist further with that model.

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew in Ann Arbor" <andrewaa@comcast.net>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 8:50 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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