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On Sat, 20 Dec 1997 17:55:25 -0600, Mike Welch wrote: >I've been diddling around with my 360PE and have hit another snag. > >I just bought a 40MB PCMCIA III hard disk (mainly because I've had no >experience with PCMCIA and now wonder if I want to :) > >It's a Western Digital drive. It plugs into slot 2 (no other options). >When I run EZPLAY (this is a PC DOS 7 system with PenDos) it identifies >the card, but I think incorrectly. Here's what the first screen looks >like: > >Socket Information > >No. Status Card Type Card Information >1 Empty >2 Ready Memory E: >3 Empty >4 Empty > >It looks like it thinks it's an SRAM card to me, but I don't know. When >I enter the detail screen it says "Write Protect: Yes" Huh? If I try >to F9/Init the drive it returns "Initialization error has occurred!". > >Any ideas on this? Should I also have some kind of driver for the drive >itself? I'm just using the latest PCMCIA services disk I got from >ibm.com. Oh, and I've already checked and it DOES have the most recent >BIOS. > >Anybody out there got any suggestions? > Yeah, if you can, take it back and get a refund. I called Western Digital because I was thinking of getting the same thing for my 701 to use with OS/2. They said it only works with Windows 3.1, and maybe DOS, and that they discontinued it because of it's various problems. Normally, PCMCIA isn't that hard to configure, and personally I find them easier than some ISA cards to configure, especially where I can give nonstandard I/O and IRQs, so they don't conflict. You might want to opt for a ZIP drive if you need large removable storage medium. Good luck! Paul