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Hello, this is my first posting to the list, since it is only ten days that I bought a (9 month used) ThinkPad 760 ED with 48 MB RAM. My name is Andreas Busch, I work at the University of Heidelberg, Political Science department. The ThinkPad I bought because from September onwards, I will spend a year in the States (in Cambridge, MA). So much for my introduction, now to my problem: I want to install OS/2 on it (it has Win 95 installed at the moment). For this I need both a disk drive and a CD-ROM drive. So I borrowed an external drive (FDD) from a friend who owns a somewhat older ThinkPad model (I donīt recall the precise model at the moment), hoping that I could use that (since the kit to turn the internal FDD into an external one is not available at the moment, as my IBM dealer tells me). Now, I can connect the external FDD to the machine. And when I boot the ThinkPad, it apparently recognizes the FDD (when I have a floppy in the drive on boot-up, it complains about this not being a system disk). However, when the system is booted and I try to access drive A:, it gives me a "not accessible" error. I have tried to give the "PS2 FDD E" command, which as far as I know is supposed to tell the machine that it should look for an external floppy drive, but that doesnīt change a thing. Now for the REALLY strange part: when I exchange the CD-ROM drive for the internal floppy drive and do the same as above, the system recognizes the external drive and I have both a drive A: and a drive B: and can access both! That of course is of little use to me, since I need a floppy AND a CD-ROM drive to install OS/2... But it shows that IN PRINCIPLE the ThinkPad can access the FDD. Is there somebody on this list that has solved that problem? If so, or anybody else has an idea what I am doing wrong, please tell me! Thanks in advance Andreas ____________________________________________________________ Dr. Andreas Busch bp7@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de Universitaet Heidelberg, Institut fuer Politische Wissenschaft, Germany ____________________________________________________________