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Message from Steven
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monz wrote:
>
> A white plastic surface with 5 gold ovals on it?

Yes, that is the port for the trackball.

> ... directly behind what must be the trackball
> port is a pcmcia port, 

Yes, the PCMCIA port is behind the trackball port;
however, between the the trackball port and PCMCIA
port there should be two PS/2 ports.  Look carefully 
at the right edge of the trackball port.  There 
should be a plastic tab.  Slide the tab to the left 
so that it covers the trackball port.  That should
uncover the PS/2 ports (which are behind a little
door immediately behind the trackball port).

> which has an old modem card plugged in (but without 
> the dongle on the end). 

Have you looked at the card closely?  Some Toshiba 
486 laptops had external memory slots with memory 
cards that looked like PCMCIA cards.

> Behind that, at the rear of the right side, is
> an empty hole which also has a pcmcia connector
> at the back, but it's double-card height, with
> only one connector at the bottom. 

If you have two separate holes, then one is probably
PCMCIA and the other is for Toshiba memory expansion.

> I have a Kingston Datapak 340 (MB) hard-drive
> on a pcmcia card. I tried plugging it in to
> that port, and BL did see it there. 

Did you get two high beeps?

> Unfortunately i don't have a driver for it, so i 
> couldn't mount it. 

If you got two high beeps, then BL3 can probably 
mount it (assuming your Datapak is IDE).  After 
you get two hight beeps, look on the screen a few 
lines from the bottom.  You should see something
like this:
------------------------------------
cardmgr: executing './ide start hdc'
------------------------------------
hdc (or whatever you get) is the designation 
assigned to your Datapak.  To mount the first 
partition do:
---------------------
mount /dev/hdc1  /mnt
---------------------  
That assumes hdc was assigned to your HD.

> Any drivers available for that which will 
> work in BL?

BL3 comes with the standard PCMCIA IDE driver
-- that should work with all IDE cards (HDs,
CDroms and compact flash).  BL3 also comes
with the standard PCMCIA serial driver 
(for modems) and the most common non-wireless
network driver.  Additional PCMCIA drivers
are available at the BL3 site.

Cheers,
Steven