Thinkpads Forum

I've just bought a new selectabase 3 off ebay (£4.00) ,the software that comes with it refers to windows 95, I'm running windows 98SE will I have any problems? also is there a limit to the size of the hard disk I can fit in the IDE drive bay?
All I need now is a selectabase 1, can't fine one local yet

Thanks for your help

The Windows 95 drivers will work just fine on Windows 98. There may be one or two things that just seem slightly outta place but function wise they should be perfect.

As for the hard drive, I'm really not sure how big the SelectaBase can hold but I'm almost certain that it'll be the same as what you can put in the ThinkPad itself which according to documentatio is 6gb. However, one of the forum members, whizkid I think it is, claims that he put a 12gb drive in his legacy ThinkPad (I think it was a 750c but again this is from memory so I may stand corrected) and it's recognized as 8gb.

Very close. I have a 750P in which I had a 12GB drive, and 8GB was recognized by the BIOS, but I could use all 12GB once Linux loaded. So, /boot partition on the first part of the drive, a swap partition and one big partition for everything else.

Win98 should be able to do the same thing. Make your C drive 8GB or less and put the OS on that, then make the rest your D drive, and you should be able to use anything up to 136GB or so... but of course, I haven't tested any 760*.

Let us know what you try and what happens.

Why can a Base attach HD? I thought only selectaDOCK can do it? Thanks

The SelectaBase can't hold any extra acessories as it's only a port replicator but the SelectaBase is required for the SelectaDock to work. The reason for this is that the SelectaDock's were IBM's supposed to be IBM's generic docking station that you could mount any high-end ThinkPad to just simply by getting the appropriate base.

The SelectaDock itself can hold a hard drive, CD-ROM drive and an expansion card.