Re: [Thinkpad] Re: PC card follies, TP 560x, anyone got a stock Win98 installation?

Good solution: I like it ;-)

co273@bfn.org on 22.08.2004 17:01:06
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Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Re: PC card follies, TP 560x, anyone got a
stock Win98 installation?

Ever consider a 5GB Toshiba PCMCIA Type II HDD?

http://store.yahoo.com/gooddealpc-store/1to5gbtyiipc.html

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Andrew in Ann Arbor wrote:

> >> 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?
>
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