Re: [Thinkpad] [TP 600X] Has anyone actually booted from a PC Card?

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From: David Ross (ross_at_math.hawaii.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 13 2002 - 19:55:27 EST


> Has anyone actually booted a ThinkPad 600X (or anything else) from a
> PCMCIA card hard disk?

I do this regularly with a PC card flash disk on my 560 and 560X. It
doesn't work on my wife's T23.

> I bought an "IBM 105MB PCMCIA Hard Disk," model 8105PA, vintage 1994,
> apparently (and very cheap), full-formatted it from DOS with the /S

Did you do this from the Windows version of DOS, or a 'pure' DOS? Try
formatting etc from a
non-Windows DOS (eg, bootdisk.com)

- David R.


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