From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Wed Nov 13 2002 - 18:31:34 EST
I have booted a 755CD from both a PCMCIA HDD AND a shark drive
I think the thing is that the card has to be a pure, real IDE controller
card.
Most of the PCMCIA cards are not, I think I had a Maxtor of around 170MB
that was, and the Shard PCMCIA card is.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Mendelson" <edward.mendelson_at_verizon.net>
To: "Thinkpad List" <thinkpad_at_stderr.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 5:50 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] [TP 600X] Has anyone actually booted from a PC Card?
> Has anyone actually booted a ThinkPad 600X (or anything else) from a
> PCMCIA card hard disk?
>
> I bought an "IBM 105MB PCMCIA Hard Disk," model 8105PA, vintage 1994,
> apparently (and very cheap), full-formatted it from DOS with the /S
> option, confirmed that the system files and command.com were present,
> and tried to boot from it, after specifying in Easy-Setup that the only
> device to boot from was the PC Card. It didn't work.
>
> Has anyone actually booted up from a PC Card disk this way? I'm not
> asking if it *should* be possible (obviously IBM seems to imply it
> should be possible by putting the option in Easy Setup) - only whether
> anyone has actually done it, and if so, what disk did you use, and what
> special trick, if any, don't I know about.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Edward Mendelson
>
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