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Mike, Thanks for your thoughts on the IBM PC Card HDD. I'm just about ready to call the Thinkpad people as the Options people have been no "support" despite what they call themselves. Win95 seems to detect its presence but either doesn't load the correct drivers or doesn't load them completely. Various other people tell me that these IBM/Maxtor drives have a CIS structure and should self-detect under Win95, but it seems that "detect" is not the same as access. I think I running under OSR1, but how do you tell? Thank for the help. Stan ---------- > From: Mike Welch <mikew@anet-dfw.com> > To: s.k.chen@worldnet.att.net > Cc: Thinkpad <THINKPAD@cs.utk.edu> > Subject: Re: IBM PCMCIA HDD > Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 7:51 AM > > Stan, > > That's an utter CROCK! It's not like offering the 300K compressed file > on their web site would be a lot of work for them. They _should_ have > them up there. > > What model hard disk is it? Also, what OSR of Win95 are you running? > Someone recently posted a message stating some kind of problem with the > PCMCIA on certain models and that the OSR1 drivers work better. > > I beat my head against the wall trying to get a Western Digital to work > and finally gave up (sad fact is, I can write to it, but not without > really odd FAT errors). > > Stanley Chen wrote: > > > > I recently bought a 40Mb IBM PCMCIA HDD to use as storage for large Power > > Point presentation file thinking that I would have less compatibility > > problems with IBM than other manufacturers. It installed in my 701 running > > Win95 fine and the O/S recognized the devise, but apparently no drivers are > > loaded so I don't get an icon and am unable to access the drive. IBM says > > that the devise has been withdrawn and there are no drivers available for > > it to operate under Win95. So am I just out of luck? Or do some of the > > other list members have come across a solution. As these units seem to be > > appearing on various auction at reasonable prices, I was hoping to test > > this one with the intention of getting several more. I'd appreciate any > > help or comment on this problem.