[OB] Omnibook Digest, Vol 2, Issue 32

[Reed Turner]

I wonder if my problem is that I am not using W98 - I have been working with
just an Omnibook factory Win 95 image copied to the compact flash. I will
try it with one of our W98 machines (but I don't that is quite the problem
since it really doesn't get far enough to decide if it is Win 95 or 98.

Reed


On 7/17/08, Scott Stewart <scotts at cfw.com> wrote:
>
>
> Reed - I have one of these I got off of the eBay working in an 800ct
> running
> Win98.  I was trying to extend the battery life but as I remember I didn't
> get a whole lot more life out of it and had a bit of trouble with the
> suspend. Scott Stewart
>
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>   1. Re: OB 800 Compact flash as a hard drive (Reed Turner)
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> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:04:19 -0600
> From: "Reed Turner" <reed.turner at gov.ab.ca>
> Subject: Re: [OB] OB 800 Compact flash as a hard drive
> To: "HP Omnibook Notebook Computer list" <omnibook at lists.elektro.com>
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> 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
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> 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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