From: William Van Tuyl (wvantuyl_at_iso.net)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2001 - 17:04:25 EST
Thanks for the memory jog. I will do it tomorrow. I checked
IBM's drive site and yes, there was that change. I seem to
remember (2nd thing to go) that a little snip in the hookup cable
would do it.
Thanks, Bill
Peter Machule wrote:
> Which caddie are you using ???
>
> Pinout changed around the 810 mb area so
> if the caddy held a 810 or some 1.2 gb it will not work .
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Van Tuyl" <wvantuyl_at_iso.net>
> To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 12:49 PM
> Subject: Larger harddrives in older Thinkpads
>
> > O.K., so I tried to get a 3GB hd in a 755C and I haven't
> > succeeded yet. Before I waste another gob of hours, has any
> > one gotten a drive bigger than 2+GB in a 360 thru 755
> > series?
> >
> > I tried several disk managers but no luck. I keep getting a
> > 174 (hard drive) error. If I could get to the drive table I
> > might be able to set a basic drive (1024/64/63) but then how
> > would BIOS keep it? Anyone know of a BIOS setup program
> > that would work?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
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