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As those of you who follow this list probably know by now, I have this
here Western Digital CU140 PCMCIA hard disk for my TP 360PE. I wonder
if PCMCIA III could be used as a skeet?...
Anyway, the only software I've ever been able to get to slightly
recognize the drive is the Pheonix Card Manager (PCM) that apparently
_came with_ the 360PE (I naturally don't have the original disks, and
they're not on ibm.com). I have worked and worked with this drive, and
surfed and surfed the web for information. Does anybody with any
thinkpad out there (skip Win95, I'd be impressed to get it to work in
DOS) have this same hard disk running under PCM+?
Software: PCM+ v3.1 (I think)
Drive: WD CU140 Caviar-de-har-har
PCMCIA: 2.1 <- perhaps the WD will only work with PCMCIA 2.0? If so,
how do I force PCM to run in 2.0?
Control: PCM+ seems to think that I have a Richoh RF5C266/RF5C366
PCMCIA controler. Can anybody confirm if this is correct?
Please: At the very least, could someone please post their PCM.INI
file? I can't revert back to the default because I don't
have the master disks!
Thanks. A few folks have responded in the past but nothing I've heard
has helped. I can load the drivers, reboot, see the drive in PCM+ (even
with the right params), run PCMFDISK okay (reboot and it saves whatever
partition information I put on the drive), but when I try to FORMAT, I
get a track 0 error. I would normally think this is a dead drive, but
it's brand new and what's more: after FORMAT fails, I can THEN do a DIR
on the drive and see the files I had on there the last time I messed
with it! There is some kind of driver problem, I think, or perhaps a
memory conflict? (I've already tried booting plain vanilla DOS without
any memory managers).
Please help, or direct me to where I can find a cheap plastic gun...only
need to use it once.