From: Ray Bayles (canyonlands_at_theriver.com)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 09:50:48 EST
Changed the boot order... even eliminated B altogether... still no
luck... I am going to assume we have a bad drive if anybody else is
able to boot from the LS-120... but it cannot be exactly the same
because the A21e LS-120 will not fit a 770X.
Patrick McCann wrote:
>
> It turns out I received the same drive in a deal for a 770X. After three
> months I just installed it last nite. I'm running XP on the 770X and it
> recognised the LS-120 immediately.
>
> BUT - this becomes YOUR "B" DRIVE, not you're "A" drive. So, you may need
> to change the boot order in the bios to reflect this!
>
> Good luck!
>
> pARISpAT
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Bayles [mailto:canyonlands_at_theriver.com]
> Sent: vendredi 1 fevrier 2002 04:56
> To: Thinkpad Mailing List
> Subject: A21 Boot Problem with LS-120 Dual Floppy
>
> I have a client who owns a "new" A21 purchased October 1. She was
> persuaded to buy the IBM LS-120 dual floppy drive that will accept and
> write to either the regular 1.44 floppy drive or the LS-120 disks that
> hold 120 megabytes. It fits in the bay, exchanging with the CD-ROM
> drive.
>
> The darn thing wont boot system disks, PCDoctor, any of the downloaded
> utility updates that require a boot, or any other bootable disks. She
> brought it to me for a fix. I can't make it boot either. I have tried
> a new BIOS and every combination in the SetUp. EZServe wont deal with
> it because it was purchased separately from the computer.
>
> Does anybody know if this LS-120 drive is supposed to boot? The guy I
> talked to on the IBM 800 number couldn't find anything on it. The
> people at CDW, Insight, Computers4sure, Outpost and PCConnection all
> report their literature says it is supposed to boot. The
> www.pc.ibm.com web site only discusses the USB floppy drives and 1.44
> floppy drives as bootable.
>
> The drive is made by Matshushita, Model LKM-FC-33-9, the IBM FRU is
> 27L3450. It looks like a duck, but I don't think it is what it is
> quacked up to be.
>
> Any ideas before we send it back?
>
> Ray Bayles
--The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
Albert Einstein
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