[OB] OB 800 Compact flash as a hard drive

[Reed Turner]

Hi:
Just wondering if you ever got this to work. We would be interested in doing
something similar with a 2 gb flash card and ide to CF adapter on our
8000ct's. Currently, when installed, if you F2 into the bios, it shows a
hard drive of the correct size but when you let it attempt to boot, the
startup progresses through the two " Configuring [Bridge Controller]"
messages, then restarts and shows three lines

166 Mhz Pentium CPU
External Cache: 512K enabled
Invalid or damaged Bootable partition

and stops. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Reed

On 8/26/07, William Leonard <threwcasual at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> There are 2 slots in the the left side of the 600. I will give that a shot
> tomarrow and I'll let you know what happens.
>                                                                     Bill
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kendrick Kerwin Chua" <kendrick at io.com>
> To: "HP Omnibook Notebook Computer list" <omnibook at lists.elektro.com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 12:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [OB] OB 800 Compact flash as a hard drive
>
>
> > On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, William Leonard wrote:
> >
> > > Hi and thanks,
> > >  I did a google on atainit.exe and found a reference on it being in the
> > > omnibook directory in the omnibook 600 with win 3.1. I copied it to a
> > > floppy.
> > > I then put the windows 95 startup disk and booted it up. I got the
> > > warning:hdd failed auto-ide. I put the floppy with ataainit.exe in the
> > > flloppy drive and got a message cannot get special call address to
> device
> > > driver or other failure. if I type c: I get a message invalid drive
> > > specification. Thanks again for your efforts.
> >
> > I think you need to run the ATAInit against the card when it's loaded in
> a
> > PCMCIA slot first, before putting it into your CF-to-IDE adapter. You
> > won't be able to access the card from the IDE connector until that
> > happens. But now I can't remember, does the OB600 even have PC slots?
> >
> > -KKC
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