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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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