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Re: Heeeeeelppp! (360PE)
Mike,
Reinstall card services from the \dos\pcm subdirectory or from the cd-rom.
It will ask if you plan to use ata pcmcia tell it yes. ATA is the term
for hard disks.
On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, 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?
>
> Thanks!
>
Patrick West <pccare@teleport.com>,using Pine 3.96
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