[ltp] UltraSlimBay swapping on ThinkPad 600

[Thomas Hood]

 --- Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@web.de> wrote: 
> I had the same behaviour when I first tried to take out the CD-ROM and put in
> 
> the floppy drive. After doing a "PS2.EXE fdd internal" (don't know if this is
> 
> the right syntax, but I think it was set to "external" before) I was able to 
> use the floppy drive after booting with the CD-ROM. I don't need to fiddle 
> around with hdparm -U/-R.
> 
> I hope that helps.

It does.

I had my suspicions that "PS2.EXE fdd external" was the reason I
had to boot with the floppy drive installed --- now you've confirmed it.

Question: Can you use the floppy drive externally?

--
Thomas

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