Phantom Floppy drive?

T. Ribbrock emgaron at gmx.net
Tue Feb 17 16:10:27 UTC 2004


On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:29:50PM +0530, Atul Chitnis wrote:
[...]
> The issue here is that this is a notebook (an IBM Thinlpad) and it doesn't 
> *have* a floppy drive! In fact I havent owned a notebook with one in 
> almost 7 years!

Wild guess: Does that laptop have the *option* to add a floppy (e.g. as a
module)? If so, maybe there are some settings in the BIOS to switch off
any floppy related stuff - just an idea.

Cheerio.

Thomas
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