From: William Van Tuyl (wvantuyl_at_iso.net)
Date: Fri Mar 02 2001 - 11:23:31 EST
Thanks again to everyone for the memory jog. Me and my hero Homer S.
say "DOH"
It is working fine now. I took the "bent pins" approach. Now how am
I going to get more than 36Meg of memory? Hmmm!
OH BTW it works for a 360PE and 755C.
TA, Bill
William Van Tuyl wrote:
> 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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