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Re: Help with 2.1GB on 755cd
> I bought an IBM DCRA-22160 hard drive which is the 17mm 2.1GB IDE hard
> drive that IBM sells. I've put it into a spare caddy aand plugged it in
> and I get error message 174 on my 755CD. I've tried a different hard
> drive with the same caddy and connector and it works. Is there something
> special I have to do to use the 2.1GB hard drive?? All I've had until now
> in this machine was a 540MB. I've tried with a bootable Dos disk in the
> floppy drive but I still get the Error 174 and no way to get into
> Easysetup.
Error 174 is a problem checking the installed devices. Most likely
you need to update your BIOS - I have a 755CE and the latest update
is for this very thing (2.1 gig disks). Someone just mentioned the
web address to get this sort of thing from IBM (I don't have it
handy though right now).
Billy Y..