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At 01:34 PM 10/16/96 +0000, paulwal@colum.mindspring.com wrote: >Well, I promised to report on my project to use a Quantum >disk drive in my 760CD.... > >Executive Summary: It works! > I checked with GDS based on your message, and we picked up 3 of the 1G Quantum Europas for our various ThinkPad 75X's (a 755CD, 755Ce and an older 750). I bought some disk carriers from PS-Solutions. They seem nice. They have both a top and bottom to fully enclose the drive, they have a plastic sheet on the side facing the circuit card, and they also have the locking mechanism. They seem to fit very well at least in the 755CD. Some minor problems...the end of the ribbon cable had to be trimmed to allow the drive to lay flat to the case, the wire handle had to be moved around a bit while inserting the drive, and the case is a little heavy (3 oz more than the IBM drive and case). You can reduce the case weight by 2 oz by removing the bottom, but then you lose the locking mechanism. Installed the drive then Fdisk'd with 2 partitions, 511M on the primary and 524M (or there abouts) on the extended. Formatted (from Windows startup disk) and, as hoped, the 511M partition kept the 8k sized allocation units. The 524M partition formated to 16K sized allocation units. Did scandisk...all OK. Set up the CD-ROM with the most basic IBM drivers (ibmtpcd.sys device in Config.sys and mscdex.exe in Autoexec.bat, per CD-ROM DOS installation procedures). Installed Win95 from CD-ROM. All was uneventful. Used Drvspace to compress the D: disk to get more space and minimize the effect of bigger allocation units. Installed MWave 2.22. This basically worked, though I STILL cannot make an external Midi device function from MidiPort. I also still need to check modem operation fully. The drive install seems fine to this point. However, I can't get my Enhance video system recognized by Win95. It comes up with a failure to load the device driver. Even with it "not loaded" I can get NTSC video out, so something is basically working. More on this later (I will be looking for advice on this). Late executive summary...the Europas in the PS Solutions carrier seem to work on the 755CD...and it was a pretty good deal. About $250 for 1G drive. I don't know if GDS has more of the drives. Using that drive and one of the Road Warrior style external cases could make a pretty decent mirror backup system for about $320 (though it would be connecting through the parallel port, thus limiting speed). Thanks Mike Redmond