[OB] OB 800 Compact flash as a hard drive

[Reed Turner]

I know more about this now - it turns out to be somewhat dependent on the
compact flash you are using. Im my case it is a sandisk and the error comes
because the bios sees it as removeable. Sandisk used to offer a utility,
ATCFWCHG.com, that would reset the bits in the flashcard identifier to make
it appear as a fixed disk and then it would be recognized. Unfortunately
they no longer offer it and I haven't been able to find it on the web
either. Some card brands do not have this issue - others do, and there is no
guide I can find - it is apparently a trial and error.

Reed




On 7/17/08, Ron Beckley <ron at beckleyenterprises.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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
> >
>
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