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 At 10:08 PM 8/10/2010, you wrote:
Message: 9 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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