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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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