[ltp] UltraSlimBay swapping on ThinkPad 600

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Thu, 27 Sep 2001 23:44:52 +0200


On Thursday, 27. September 2001 18:22, Thomas Hood wrote:
>  --- 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?

Sorry, I only have an internal one. But a friend of mine could have an 
external floppy for his TP 765. I could try it with that.

Tino

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