[OB] OB 800 Compact flash as a hard drive

[Ron Beckley]

I currently have a 800CT with 4G flashcard on IDE to CF Adapter that is
working. I have Win98 and DSL working with two 2 G partitions. It has been a
while since I made the setup but I think I made a Ghost image of a working
Win98 drive and restored it to the CF card. Don't recall using ATAInit. I
probably used an adapter to connect the CF to my desktop or used an OB
floppy to start up the OB with CD support.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: omnibook-bounces at lists.elektro.com [mailto:omnibook-
> bounces at lists.elektro.com] On Behalf Of Reed Turner
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:04 AM
> To: HP Omnibook Notebook Computer list
> Subject: Re: [OB] OB 800 Compact flash as a hard drive
> 
> 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
>