From: Jonathan Berry (jberry_at_islandnet.com)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 02:45:45 EDT
Second report:
The manufacturer never bothered to confirm whether my guess about
which pin to snip was correct, so I got out the 701C caddy and
a hard drive. There was strong circumstantial evidence, and I
removed one of the pins.
I used a combination of bending and cutting, as there was not
much in the house tiny enough to deal with snipping a pin.
I took at 32 MB CompactFlash card, put it in a Win95 system,
went SYS j: and transferred a few other useful files over.
Mounted the CF card in the adapter, and the adapter in the 701C
caddy. Even though the adapter is considerably smaller than a
hard drive, it is a bit ungainly in the adapter and I had to
use masking tape to keep it in place.
Replaced the old drive-in-caddy with the CF hard drive.
Turned on computer ... first an error message about incorrect
time and date, which was 1984. Fn-F1 works. The BIOS shows a
32 MB hard drive. I think this works! I also have to turn off
hibernate (the computer has 40 MB of RAM).
So I turn the machine off again (Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work, I
guess because no OS is loaded). And on. But so far it doesn't
boot. Just a blinking underline in the top left corner. Can
somebody give me a pointer about what I've done wrong?
It's been so long since I've used pure DOS.
And while we're at it, I probably want to run a different DOS
version, probably DR-DOS 5 or DR-DOS 6. But how do I make a
bootable compact flash "hard drive" when I don't have a working
DR-DOS system? SYS J: would not work. Would it be enough just
to copy the files? I thought that SYS did something more than
just copy the files.
So this may be close to working. Of course, it's very quiet.
Thanks.
-- cheers Jonathan Berry http://www.islandnet.com/~jberry/ to know more than you want
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