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> > So I conclude either the floppy drive/cotroller is failing 
> > or BSL just doesn't grok it's disk-is-changed language. 
> 
> I seem to remember that the floppies on early Thinkpads 
> were non-standard and needed an extra parameter in Linux.  
> I'll have a search for it.

Here it is (from May 2003)
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Most Thinkpads have an "inverted floppy drive change line"
(why IBM did it this way, I don't know).  To fix it, add:
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floppy=thinkpad
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to the loadlin line in boot.bat  (in your DOS directory)