At 9/8/98 09:02 AM , I wrote:

>I have a ThinkPad 760 to which I am trying to enable the IDE to Parallel
>port DataTank with a 3.2 Gig Samsung harddrive installed. This is one of
>the external drive boxes that attached to the parallel port and allows any
>IDE (or ATA/ATAPI device) to be accessed.  The DataTank is designed to work
>with the EPP parallel port setting.  Now the problem.
>
>The settings for the ThinkPad parallel port are via a ThinkPad Features
>app.  It shows Uni-Directional, Bi-Directional, EPP and ECP as choices in
>the advanced settings.  However the EPP setting is grayed out.

<snip>

>But I cannot figure out if there is supposed to be a special
>driver for the parallel port itself to support the EPP mode so I can set
>the port to EPP mode.
>
>Any suggestions?

Didn't receive any replies but solved problem and want to pass along to
other who may have ThinkPads.  There is an update to their Win95 and DOS
ThinkPad Features Program dated 6/15/98 which fixes this problem as well as
upgrading their Features program to a "ThinkPad Configuration" program.
The ThinkPad (760E at least) uses this program instead of the traditional
"BIOS settings at startup" for most BIOS type settings.

Maybe other ThinkPad problems will be fixed with this upgrade/patch.

Doug Simmons
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