Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 06:50:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kevin McClelland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Tom's PCMCIA HDD and CS&S problems
On Wed, 10 April 2002, Pres Waterman wrote > > Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 00:31:34 -0400 > From: Pres Waterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] Tom's PCMCIA HDD and CS&S problems > > > > > > > > still a little bit of a pain. Personally I would > > > > probably unload your PCMCIA only CD on ebay and > > > > purchase one that has both PCMCIA and parallel port > > > > capability. That would solve most OS installation woes, > > > > > > > > >No, that would create a whole host of OS installation woes... including > > >making it impossible. The ONLY floppy a Libretto will boot from IS the > > >original Toshiba brand floppy. > > > > I think he's talking the CD, not the floppy ... I wasn't aware the libby > > came with a CD that was properly supported ... > > > He said sell the floppy in favor of a CD. My cautions remain... no > bootability any more > Actually, I said sell the PCMCIA only CD, and get a CD drive that supports both PCMCIA and parallel hookups. What good is a Libretto if you sell the only floppy that is native to it? It is significantly easier to load DOS drivers to recognize a parallel CDROM on a Win95/98 boot disk than it is to mess around with getting the PC card bus to work under DOS. I have made multiple OS installs using the parallel CD and the Lib floppy with no problems at all. > > I think he's talking the CD, not the floppy ... I wasn't aware the libby > > came with a CD that was properly supported ... I think the Toshiba website had a TSB on some drives, Noteworthy comes to mind, that worked with the Libretto, but I think it was just explaining how to load and configure the drivers on a DOS boot disk in order to run the recovery program off the factory CD. I don't think there was ever native support for a boot from CD or a CD drive that did not require DOS drivers to work under DOS. ------------------------------------------------- Get your free @Elvis e-mail account at Elvis.com! http://www.elvis.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------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 **************************************************************
