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I may be getting into this conversation a bit late, but I hope my disastrous experience with the 560X recovery CD may help others. I now know that to use it successfully, you must have an "IBM" approved CD. If you don't have a unit that their software recognizes, even though it works in normal configuration, you may be in for an unpleasant surprise AFTER you reformat the hard drive. Neither my Addonics CD running off the parallel port nor a Quick-CD using the PCMCIA slot was recognized by the installation software which came with the recovery CD. Also others may know, but I didn't until yesterday, Thinkpads don't like IE 4.0. They think it caused my machine to crash and even after 3 hours or so with their tech support it appears that nothing short of rebuilding the drive from scratch will help. I'm glad I've 2 computers, one to use and the other to fix. Mike Kutchins San Antonio, TX -----Original Message----- From: David Ross <ross@math.hawaii.edu> To: thinkpad@cs.utk.edu <thinkpad@cs.utk.edu> Cc: ross@math.hawaii.edu <ross@math.hawaii.edu> Date: Thursday, December 11, 1997 1:02 AM Subject: [TP560] Two CD questions >Now that I have a working CDROM player on my 560, a couple of questions >arise: > >(1) Several docs on the IBM website refer to a CD software preload disk for >the 560; does this actually exist? (I didn't get one with mine.) This would >be extremely useful for crash recovery. > >(2) To use the CDROM under DOS I apparently need some DOS socket services; >this drive (an IBM) apparently cannot talk directly to the controller (as can >some). >I know that there is a DOS PC Card director available from the IBM web site; >is >this sufficient? Alternately, can I use PCDOS 7.0 socket services on the W95 >version of DOS? > >Thanks, >David R. > > >