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

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From: Edward Mendelson (edward.mendelson_at_verizon.net)
Date: Fri Nov 15 2002 - 15:16:35 EST

You have to boot from a DOS floppy disk (or from a DOS configuration on
your hard disk) that includes the card drivers, then run PCCINIT, then
FORMAT /S the pcmcia drive. Then assign IRQ15 to the PC Card (or use the
DOS Configuration program PS2.EXE with the command PS2 IRQ IDE2 DISABLE
but check that first in the program itself). Then run Easy-Setup to make
the PC Card one of the boot devices.

If you keep the hard disk in the system when you boot from the PC Card,
of course all your hard disk drive letters will change, so this is
mostly useful if you intend to use the card *instead* of the standard
hard disk.

Edward Mendelson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve C." <stevec50_at_yahoo.com>
To: <thinkpad_at_stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 2:37 PM
Subject: RE: [Thinkpad] [TP 600X] Has anyone actually booted from a PC
Card?

> I tried PCCINIT but it won't do anything. Says it
> needs card services installed for DOS! I haven't had
> any need for that in maybe 10 years, since Windows
> came out. If anyone else is thinking about trying this
> don't bother, it's a waste of time.
>
> --- Michael Geary <Mike_at_geary.com> wrote:
> > > From: Edward Mendelson
> > >
> > > Just found a page with the link to the PCMCIA ATA
> > Hard Drive setup
> > > files:
> > >
> > > http://www.basterfield.com/pc110/ATAinit.htm
> > >
> > > The link itself is:
> > >
> > >
> > ftp://204.146.167.81/pub/pccbbs/mobiles/atado200.exe
> >
> > Here's a version of that same link that would be
> > better for bookmarking:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/mobiles/atado200.exe
> >
> > There is a lot of good stuff in this FTP directory.
> > Here's a link to the
> > directory itself:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/mobiles/
> >
> > and here is a link to the index file that explains
> > what each of the cryptic
> > filenames contains:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/mobiles/00index.txt
> >
> > -Mike
> >
>
>
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