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On Sat, 10 Jan 1998 19:07:36 -0600, you wrote: >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). I seem to remember hearing of some troublesome WD drives, but what I recall hearing is that they only work in certain devices (maybe the HP Omnibook?). I suspect you won't get it to work in the 360. As for your second question re EZSetup. I think IBM shares it's setup software across platforms, and the PCMCIA option is for the PC 110 device, which runs from a type III drive. I've never gotten a reaction from it myself, and every unit I've seen boot to a pc card drive had drivers written in ROM specifically for this, which the laptops don't have. Just my opinion, which as most folks will tell you is pretty worthless :-) epbrown Stop by the Portable Computing Center for reviews, editorials, and the FAQ on laptop computers. http://www.enteract.com/~epbrown Laptops: IBM Thinkpad 560 and 510Cs