From: Edward Mendelson (edward.mendelson_at_verizon.net)
Date: Fri Nov 15 2002 - 11:40:12 EST
Thanks to the helpful and generous people on this list, the
boot-from-PCCard-hard-drive problem is solved. It needed either two step
or one steps, because I can't prove that the first one was really needed
(though I think it was).
Step 1: I used the PCMCIA ATA Hard Drive Setup Disk (kindly sent by
Aryeh Goretsky) to initialize the drive, and then used DOS 7.1 to do a
format /s. As I said, I can't prove that this was required, because step
2 was needed to get things fully working, and it's possible that they
would have worked without step 1.
Step 2: This crucial clue was suggested by Jack Schudel, but I should
have RTFM and saved him the trouble. The important step is to assign IRQ
15 to the PC Card; it was occupied by the second IDE device in the
UltraBay, and I had to reassign it manually. Once that was done, the
machine booted perfectly to IBM PC-DOS 7.1 from the PC Card drive.
Incidentally, I can't find the PCMCIA ATA Hard Drive Setup files on
IBM's web site, but maybe I didn't look hard enough.
Many thanks to everyone who responded!
Edward Mendelson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Schudel" <jgs2_at_nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu>
To: "Edward Mendelson" <edward.mendelson_at_verizon.net>
Cc: "Thinkpad List" <thinkpad_at_stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 12:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] [TP 600X] Has anyone actually booted from a PC
Card?
> A few more things to look at...
>
> On my 600E, I can boot off of a compact flash card mounted in a pcmcia
> adapter, but it is a little less than obvious.
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