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Hi Stanley, I have the IBM Options 40M PCMCIA drive as well. I don't recall whether I tried it in my 701, but I have used it in my wife's Compaq notebook and the PCMCIA adapter in my desktop with minimal problems. The person I bought it from said that it needed to be "initialized" before an operating system could recognize it. I had him do this for me, and it has worked OK, altho on occasion I have to reboot for the system to find it. Unfortunately, I don't really know what "initialized" means. Hope this provides a glimmer of a clue for somebody! Lewis -----Original Message----- From: Stanley K. Chen [SMTP:s.k.chen@worldnet.att.net] Sent: Friday, January 30, 1998 10:09 AM To: mikew@anet-dfw.com Cc: thinkpad Subject: Re: IBM PCMCIA HDD Hi Mike, I check on my Win version and it's the same as yours so that shouldn't be the problem. I then installed the DOS drivers and tried to initialize it that way with no success. Someone suggested that if I formated it, I would be able to access it. I tried doing that, but since I have no drive letter, I couldn't figure out how to format it. The utilities that came with the DOS drives weren't able to do it either. So I'm fresh out of ideas and about to call the Thinkpad Service Group with my fingers crossed that they will be more help than the Options people. Let me know if you have other idea. Thank for you help so far. Stan ---------- > From: Mike Welch <mikew@anet-dfw.com> > To: s.k.chen@worldnet.att.net > Subject: Re: IBM PCMCIA HDD > Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 10:31 AM > > Right click on "My Computer" and under General look at the version. > Mine is 4.0095, which is the first release. I would suspect OSR1 would > be 4.1095 or 4.0195 and OSR2 would be 4.2095 or 4.0295. > > Stanley K. Chen wrote: > > > > 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.