Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 05:59:33 +0000 From: "Fubar Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: my brain hurts [LIB]
>>A short while after this was completed, while playing around and >>looking for signs of anything being amiss, all three partitions >>of the external HDD disappeared from Windows Explorer and could >>not be persuaded to return no matter what. Trust me, I tried >>everything. > >Umm ... this sorta surprises me a bit ... have you tried the same >trick (copying files around) when the HDD is in the libby? Yes - no problems. >Someone correct me if I'm wrong but this sounds more like a >problem with your PCMCIA drive caddy (perhaps a power problem?) >as opposed to a file system problem ... the communications >between your libby and the external drive controller getting >messed up somehow such that the libby thinks one thing and the >drive controller thinks another. Well I guess anything is possible. But as I said - I tried everything (removing and replacing each component; installing the PCcard before booting, after booting; checking the status of the PCcard and HDD drivers; etc etc etc) and none of the partitions on the 30GB HDD could be persuaded to come back. The moment I swapped the drives over, ie put the 30GB HDD back in the Libretto and the 4.3GB HDD in the caddy, everything (caddy and both drives) worked perfectly (except of course for the file errors later found on the over-8GB partition copied to using Win'98). _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
