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

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From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Thu Nov 14 2002 - 13:09:12 EST

Again, I have done it.
It does require a true IDE controller with no other BIOS on board the PCMCIA
card.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve C." <stevec50_at_yahoo.com>
To: "Edward Mendelson" <edward.mendelson_at_verizon.net>
Cc: <thinkpad_at_stderr.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] [TP 600X] Has anyone actually booted from a PC Card?

>
> --- Edward Mendelson <edward.mendelson_at_verizon.net>
> wrote:
> > This sounds right, but I'm still trying to find a
> > way to set the PC Card as
> > active. Partition Magic running under DOS doesn't
> > even see the drive. Will
> > probably try the Linux fdisk at some point and see
> > if that helps...
> I used a bootable Linux CD, actually SUSE Live Eval,
> not the one suggested, and made the PCMCIA drive
> Active. It was FDISK and Formatted with Windows 98.
> Still won't boot though. I doubt if this feature can
> be made to really work. It's probably a feature they
> were thinking about and started to implement but never
> finished making it useable, kind of like USB that only
> works half the time.
>
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