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

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From: Aryeh Goretsky (goretsky_at_adelphia.net)
Date: Sun Nov 17 2002 - 00:50:53 EST

Hello,

The IBM PCMCIA Hard Drive Setup programs are almost 10 years old,
and would work best with an operating environment from that era.

Have you tried booting your ThinkPad from a Microsoft MS-DOS or
IBM PC-DOS boot diskette loading the PCMATADD.SYS device driver
from the IBM PCMCIA Hard Drive Setup? I think it would work best
in that environment.

If you have a recent vintage ThinkPad it is possible the program
does not recognize its modern CardBus controller. If IBM or the
controller manufacturer doesn't provide a Card & Socket Services
the only thing I can think of would be to try an older ThinkPad.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

At 07:45 AM 11/16/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>Message: 3
>Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:37:42 -0800 (PST)
>From: "Steve C." <stevec50_at_yahoo.com>
>Subject: RE: [Thinkpad] [TP 600X] Has anyone actually booted from a PC Card?
>To: thinkpad_at_stderr.org
>
>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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