>> 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).
> ThinkPads are know to have resource issues with PCMCIA
> IDE drives in 98. That may be part of the problem.
> 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.
Thanks Bruce and Matt
I could see either possibility.
I definitely recall a 2 IDE limit on older PCs although the fact that
the cards show up in the PC card eject box suggests that the hardware
can handle 2 cards.
On the other hand I must confess that I have removed large chunks of
Windows in my attempt to revert to DOS so I could see the possibility
that I removed something useful.
To resolves this question I need to find someone with a 560x and the
stock Win98 installation that can mount 2 large cards.
If they can see both cards (listed as "IDE/ESDI hard disk controller")
then my lite install of Win98 is flawed.
If they can't see both cards with the stock install then I'm inclined to
think there's an inherent problem with Win98.
-- Andrew in Ann Arbor technology is the answer, what was the question? _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list Thinkpad@stderr.org http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpadReceived on Sat Aug 21 22:19:12 2004
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