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Re: Me and my dawg gone Western Digital PCMCIA...



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>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?

This is the correct chipset, at least in my 355C.  That should also
be for the 360xx since they're VERY similiar.

>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.
>
Heh heh.  Have you called Western Analog yet?  I hear they have a bad reputation
for their drives anyways (at least their video chipsets are nice, though).
:-)

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Paul

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