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TP 770 - Hot swapping of floppy and CD-ROM under Windows NT
Applicable to: World-Wide
This is the README file from the Windows NT preload for the ThinkPad 770. A pure Hot Swap of the hard drive is not supported, but a warm swap of the CD-ROM and floppy in the Ultrabay is supported. Attaching the external floppy drive while the system is powered up is supported, but note that external floppy drive warm swapping and internal Ultrabay floppy drive warm swapping are mutually exclusive! Only one works at a time. ThinkPad Configuration will set both up for you. Also as stated in the README, due to limitations in Windows NT the CD-ROM has to be present at boot time for an Ultrabay warm swap to work at all.
Hot Swapping UltraBay Devices
Hot swapping of UltraBay devices (such as the CD-ROM drive and the Diskette drive) is supported by your ThinkPad 770 Windows NT system. In order for hot swapping to occur, the CD-ROM drive must be installed in the UltraBay when the Windows NT system is booted. To enable UltraBay hot swap support, open the ThinkPad icon on your desktop and then open the ThinkPad Configuration icon in the ThinkPad folder. Select the UltraBay icon in the ThinkPad Configuration window, then select the "Enable UltraBay FDD warm attach" option, click on "OK", close all windows and restart your Windows NT system. You can now hot swap between the CD-ROM drive and the Diskette drive after suspending your ThinkPad 770 system. This can be accomplished by closing the lid on your system, waiting ten (10) seconds, swapping the drives and then opening the lid on your system.
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CD-ROM Drives, Windows NT, Diskette Drives | |
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Date Created |
06-01-98 | |
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Last Updated |
26-01-99 | |
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Revision Date |
26-01-2000 | |
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IBM ThinkPad | |
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Product Family |
ThinkPad 770, ThinkPad 770E/ED, ThinkPad 770X, ThinkPad 770Z | |
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9548, 9549, 9544 | |
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Various | |
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