RE: PCMCIA ATA drive not recognized

Try this, under BIOS setting, set the "PCI Bus Power Management" from
"Automatic" to "Disable" might solve the problem.

"Perry" wrote:

> I have a Toshiba MK5002MPL PC card hard drive. The drive works fine, and is
> recognized on multiple Windows XP laptops that I own. However, on a recently
> upgraded IBM T41 with windows XP Professional + SP2, the card is not
> recognized at all, as follows:
>
> Symptoms:
> - There is no acknowledgement “beep” when the card is inserted
> - Plug and Play does not start when the card is inserted
> - The card is not found if manually searching with Add Hardware from the
> control panel
> - In the Device Manager, the card is not listed under Drives when inserted
> - In the Device Manager, if Drives is selected and “scan for hardware
> changes” is chosen via right clicking, the Device Manager stops responding
> and hangs. This does not happen if the card is removed. Checking resources
> in other views (e.g. IDE Controllers, PCMCIA adapters) will also cause the
> device manager to stop responding.
> - If the card is inserted prior to starting-up the computer, the computer
> hangs on the Windows start-up screen (the graphic keeps moving, but Windows
> never launches).
> - If the card is inserted and left there, after a LONG time (1 hour+), the
> card will show up listed as a generic card under PCI in the device manager.
> It is shown as not working (Code 10). Any attempt to work with the card, or
> load a driver, fails.
>
> I have tried starting-up in Safe mode and adding hardware, but the results
> are the same. The PCMCIA slot does work, as I can insert other devices which
> are immediately recognized by Plug and Play.
>
> Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
>
> --
> Perry
.

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