Portable Drive Bay with T23

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bishy · #1 Post by **bishy** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:24 pm

Hi All,

A friend has given me an old IBM portable drive bay (pcmcia connector) FRU number 37L1513

After installing the drivers; either the generic Microsoft one or the one from the IBM site; I get the message 'this device cannot be started code 10'

During the driver installation, the drive bay lights come on and then as the installation finishes, all lights go off and the above message shows.

I have tried removing the device from device manager and reinstalling using the IBM drivers but exactly the same thing happens. BTW the IBM driver package has no drivers for XP so I am using the W2000 drivers, but all to no avail.

Could any kind soul please throw any light on this as it is starting to drive me crazy!!!!

Looking on the IBM site, the only clue I can find is a mention of extra IRQ's needed..........I have also tried assigning a manual IRQ to the device but this does not help.

Thanks in advance for any help with this.

bishy.

phool@round · #2 Post by **phool@round** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:26 pm

A couple of things come to mind. XP probably doesn't need a driver as it will recognize it without installing one first.

What is installed in the 'Drive Bay, anything? Might help if there's something in it. It should be recognized as an "IDE adapter" in control panel - PCMCIA.

I think you may need to install the Configuration utility to control it unless you can free up an IRQ on your own. It's probably trying to take IRQ 14 or 15 which would be the two IDE channels......

bishy · #3 Post by **bishy** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:38 pm

Hi Phool@round,

Thanks for the reply, I have already tried the generic Microsoft driver, but this gives the same result.

When looking in the driver properties I see the message 'This device is not using any resourses because it has a problem' on investigation I can see that there is not an IRQ assigned..........could this be a problem?.......If I try to manually allocate an IRQ number, this still does not make any difference.

Any further help will be very gratefully received.

bishy.

phool@round · #4 Post by **phool@round** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:10 pm

Do you have "Configuration utility" installed for your system?

bishy · #5 Post by **bishy** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:23 pm

Hi Phool@round,

No I do not have 'configuration utility' on my system, is this something I could download, or is it something that originally comes with the machine?

Thanks for the ongoing help.

bishy.

Phazer · #6 Post by **Phazer** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:24 pm

I had a heckofa problem getting mine to get past that as others on here have also.

Are you running the seperate power supply for it? Sometimes it needs both batteries AND the power supply to work. I found that wiggling the PS connector made mine work but yet it was still a reasonably tight fit. Mine worked better on the PCMCIA than it did the USB.

Once the system sees it, it will show up as both the device and also what you have installed in it.

For floppies, I use an external USB floppy. And for HDD's I use the Drive Bay adapter. In the long run, those are easier to use for me.

phool@round · #7 Post by **phool@round** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:29 pm

bishy wrote:Hi Phool@round,

No I do not have 'configuration utility' on my system, is this something I could download, or is it something that originally comes with the machine?

Thanks for the ongoing help.

bishy.

Something to download for your Thinkpad. I don't know which system your using so I can't point to the Lenovo link. It's system specific.

phool@round · #8 Post by **phool@round** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:46 pm

bishy wrote:Hi All,

A friend has given me an old IBM portable drive bay (pcmcia connector) FRU number 37L1513

Phazer wrote:I had a heckofa problem getting mine to get past that as others on here have also.

Could be the reason why it was "given" instead of "sold".

bishy · #9 Post by **bishy** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:09 pm

Hi Phool@round & Phazer,

@Phool@round.....yes I think you are right, this will probably end up in my (large!!!) box of junk.

@Phazer......I think I will take your advice and buy a dedicated floppy drive, as this was the only reason for using the portable drive bay in the first place!!!!

Thank you both for your help.

Speak to you soon.

bishy.

Phazer · #10 Post by **Phazer** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:00 pm

Quick question while we're on the subject. Does the laptop see a HDD any different in a PDB2000 than it does when using a Drive Bay adapter?

losmeme · #11 Post by **losmeme** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:20 pm

Which portable drive bay do you have? There is a "Portable Drive Bay" and a "Portable Drive Bay 2000". Each has it's own set of specific drivers.

The Portable Drive Bay uses UltraSlimBay drives (570s, 600s), the Portable Drive Bay 2000 uses Ultrabay 2000 drives (early A, T and X series TPs)

I'd check which driver package you have. I have both the PDB and PDB2K, and never had a problem with recognition once the correct drivers were installed.

phool@round · #12 Post by **phool@round** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:49 pm

bishy wrote:A friend has given me an old IBM portable drive bay (pcmcia connector) FRU number 37L1513

It's not the 2k.

Phazer · #13 Post by **Phazer** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:05 pm

To losmeme: I meant the drive bay adpater you slide in in place of the CD, FRU 08K6067 or 08K6068.

Andersonjoe711 · #14 Post by **Andersonjoe711** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:23 am

Phazer wrote:Quick question while we're on the subject. Does the laptop see a HDD any different in a PDB2000 than it does when using a Drive Bay adapter?

Nope, still comes up as another hard drive

Andersonjoe711 · #15 Post by **Andersonjoe711** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:25 am

once i disabled a few unsued ports, it freed up enough to run it. I did this b going into either the device manager, or thinkpad configuration utility, and disabling my serial, infared, and parallel ports.

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