Hello,
This is all very guessy (is that a word) on my part, but I am guessing
that the CompactFlash card might not have the proper partitioning (MBR
and boot sector) on it. The ATA Device Driver Utility might FDISK and
FORMAT the CompactFlash card so that has hard disk-style geometry that
the operating system loader likes. Again, just guessing, so if you do
try this, please share the results. Thank you!
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
At 10:00 AM 8/25/2010, you wrote:
Message: 2
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:29:15 -0700
From: [email protected] (Jonathan Berry)
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] [701C] Faster Hard Drive
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
That's an interesting suggestion.
I've seen IBM software with *worse* documentation, but I've
never seen any with *less* documentation. Not a single word
beyond the title of the article.
I'm wondering how this could apply. The CompactFlash card
slots into a reader (with ICs etc), and the reader slots into
the PATA (IDE) slot of the 701C computer. PCMCIA is not
involved at all.
Though I'd be happy to try it. It's been some years
since I've had to "burn" a diskette, always for a Thinkpad,
naturally.
In article <[email protected]>, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>It could be the CompactFlash card needed to be first be initialized
>using the PCMCIA ATA Device Drivers software from IBM's support web
>site at http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/GCOR-3BUK6P.html.
>
>Regards,
>
>Aryeh Goretsky
>
>>Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:15:02 -0700
>>From: [email protected] (Jonathan Berry)
>>Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Faster Hard Drive
>>To: [email protected]
>>Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>>
>>Paul said:
>> >
>> >Jonathan said:
>> >
>> >> I am thinking of buying a Transcend 8 GB SLC PATA drive
>> >> for my old 701C.
>> >
>> >I'd recommend you make sure you can return it. I tried a
solid-state drive
>> >in my 701C and it didn't work at all. It was a SD card adapter
from eBay,
>> >so you may have better luck, but the adapter worked fine in my
380XD which
>> >also has the 8 GB limit.
>> >
>>
>>I went through something similar with a CF-to-IDE adapter.
>>It's still in mothballs. Evidently some CF cards are not
>>bootable. Which ones they are is a mystery--to me--but
>>I know that I have two such CF cards!
>>
>>But the Transcend being an actual PATA drive, surely ...
>>well that's one of the reasons I asked.
>>
>>
--
happy
Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm
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