From: Steve C. (stevec50_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Nov 13 2002 - 21:22:22 EST
I tried it on my 600E. It will boot from a CD and I
can select the PCMCIA cards in Setup but I don't think
it can be done, at least not with the Windows/DOS
utilities. In order to make the PCMCIA hard drive
bootable you have to FDISK and Format it with a
bootable OS, that's easy enough to do in Windows, but
it also has to be made ACTIVE in FDISK and that only
works on disk 1. You would have to take the original
hard drive out to make the PCMCIA drive disk 1 so it
could be made ACTIVE. In other words, if you have the
hard drive in the computer to run Windows allowing
access to the PCMCIA hard drive you can't make it
ACTIVE and if you take out the original hard drive you
can't access the PCMCIA drive. I even tried taking the
hard drive out and booting from a Windows CD to try
and run FDISK to set the PCMCIA drive active but then
couldn't access the PC slots.
There is probably a utility out there somewhere that
can make any drive ACTIVE but without that it isn't
bootable.
--- Edward Mendelson <edward.mendelson_at_verizon.net>
wrote:
> 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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