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Solid Sate Drive in 760L [warning: a few small pics!]
Re: Solid Sate Drive in 760L [warning: a few small pics!]
Ozzymud,
That was an a good steer.
Didn't work quite as hoped, but got me pointed in the right direction.
I learned that doing anything in FAT32 on the 760L, renders my CF cards unreadable on any other device.
But if we keep with FAT16, then the tunnel brightens. So basic process was to format 4meg cf cards to two FAT16 2 meg partitions.
1st, in Win98 with 810 HDD still in 760L, using drag and drop, copied the whole contents of the HDD drive onto a 1gig card in the pcmcia carrier.
Removed the HDD and replaced it with 4meg cf card in ide adapter.
Tried fdisking and formating /s the card with W98 boot floppy and yes CF card in ide boots.
Took the two cards to a desktop machine, and via USB adapters copied the 1gig contents onto the prepared partition on the 4meg.
Back on the 760, card in ide drive, it did boot off into W98, wow..!.. BUT...Wanted to go into safemode, so we did that and then it wouldn't exit got stuck in a loop about cannot exit because something needs shutting down, cancel or do that, both of which sent you back to the desktop. Tried starting in Normal mode and it detected a faulty registry, and went off to load a recent ok version, but that was evidently the same, so progressed no further. Tried F8 into command prompt, and most of the dos apps worked, but one didn't. So, almost but not quite.
The answer. Active @diskImage. Plus some extras..
Step one, Prepare the 4meg cf as above, with fdisk, no large drive access, and format it via W98 boot floppy in the ide carrier. Check FAT16.
Copy the PCM320 directory from 810HDD (its the dos driver for PCMCIA card carrier to the 4meg cf.)
Download the DOS freeware DiskImage and allow it to prepare a bootable floppy.
This uses freedos for its OS and contains a himem.sys, but no emm386.exe which the Card reader driver needs. Get the freedos equivalent jemm386.exe and place it on the floppy.
Edit the config.sys on the floppy so that the drivers in c:\PCM320 are called in the same way with the correct emm386 exclusions as I have to when loading these from DOS 6.22. (This gives DOS apps and hence DiskImage access to cards in the PCMCIA slot.)
Put the 810 HDD back in the 760.
Boot machine from the Disk Image floppy. (Save the HDD autoexec.bat, config.sys and msdos.sys to another floppy). Create a RAW disk image, with minimal compression onto a FAT16 formatted empty cf card in the PCMCIA slot. (With no compression, the final image was too big for a 1gig card).
When done, replace the 810HDD with 4 meg cf card containing just the PCM320 folder.
Reboot Disk image from floppy, restore image onto the cf card.
My experience is that the cf card will not now boot, but all files are in place and if you boot the machine from W98 floppy, then the dos applications on the cf card all work.
After booting from W98 startup disk, sys c: to make the cf card boot. Test it.
Now replace the msdos.sys with the one saved earlier and with some luck, Windows will return.
In my own case I made this additionally complicated by wanting to reinstate my Olaf Barth MSTBOOT boot manager.
Just copying back the previously saved from hard drive mbr didn't do it, but re-adding the two operating systems DOS 6.22 and W98 using the sys c: with appropriate OS boot floppy and ensuring that correct msdos.sys, autoexec.bat and config.sys files were in place, bingo, I have my heart's desire.
"Simples" as those pesky Meerkats say in the Compare the Markets tv ad.
Except that it boots more slowly than the 810HDD, and Normal windows fails at the desktop, but works fine in safemode.
The failure is either an OE Fatal error @0167:BFF87EDE or Explorer has caused a page fault. in module %2 at %3!.04x!:%4!x
Lif is now too short, but thanks all the same Ozzymud for leading me through the mire.
That was an a good steer.
Didn't work quite as hoped, but got me pointed in the right direction.
I learned that doing anything in FAT32 on the 760L, renders my CF cards unreadable on any other device.
But if we keep with FAT16, then the tunnel brightens. So basic process was to format 4meg cf cards to two FAT16 2 meg partitions.
1st, in Win98 with 810 HDD still in 760L, using drag and drop, copied the whole contents of the HDD drive onto a 1gig card in the pcmcia carrier.
Removed the HDD and replaced it with 4meg cf card in ide adapter.
Tried fdisking and formating /s the card with W98 boot floppy and yes CF card in ide boots.
Took the two cards to a desktop machine, and via USB adapters copied the 1gig contents onto the prepared partition on the 4meg.
Back on the 760, card in ide drive, it did boot off into W98, wow..!.. BUT...Wanted to go into safemode, so we did that and then it wouldn't exit got stuck in a loop about cannot exit because something needs shutting down, cancel or do that, both of which sent you back to the desktop. Tried starting in Normal mode and it detected a faulty registry, and went off to load a recent ok version, but that was evidently the same, so progressed no further. Tried F8 into command prompt, and most of the dos apps worked, but one didn't. So, almost but not quite.
The answer. Active @diskImage. Plus some extras..
Step one, Prepare the 4meg cf as above, with fdisk, no large drive access, and format it via W98 boot floppy in the ide carrier. Check FAT16.
Copy the PCM320 directory from 810HDD (its the dos driver for PCMCIA card carrier to the 4meg cf.)
Download the DOS freeware DiskImage and allow it to prepare a bootable floppy.
This uses freedos for its OS and contains a himem.sys, but no emm386.exe which the Card reader driver needs. Get the freedos equivalent jemm386.exe and place it on the floppy.
Edit the config.sys on the floppy so that the drivers in c:\PCM320 are called in the same way with the correct emm386 exclusions as I have to when loading these from DOS 6.22. (This gives DOS apps and hence DiskImage access to cards in the PCMCIA slot.)
Put the 810 HDD back in the 760.
Boot machine from the Disk Image floppy. (Save the HDD autoexec.bat, config.sys and msdos.sys to another floppy). Create a RAW disk image, with minimal compression onto a FAT16 formatted empty cf card in the PCMCIA slot. (With no compression, the final image was too big for a 1gig card).
When done, replace the 810HDD with 4 meg cf card containing just the PCM320 folder.
Reboot Disk image from floppy, restore image onto the cf card.
My experience is that the cf card will not now boot, but all files are in place and if you boot the machine from W98 floppy, then the dos applications on the cf card all work.
After booting from W98 startup disk, sys c: to make the cf card boot. Test it.
Now replace the msdos.sys with the one saved earlier and with some luck, Windows will return.
In my own case I made this additionally complicated by wanting to reinstate my Olaf Barth MSTBOOT boot manager.
Just copying back the previously saved from hard drive mbr didn't do it, but re-adding the two operating systems DOS 6.22 and W98 using the sys c: with appropriate OS boot floppy and ensuring that correct msdos.sys, autoexec.bat and config.sys files were in place, bingo, I have my heart's desire.
"Simples" as those pesky Meerkats say in the Compare the Markets tv ad.
Except that it boots more slowly than the 810HDD, and Normal windows fails at the desktop, but works fine in safemode.
The failure is either an OE Fatal error @0167:BFF87EDE or Explorer has caused a page fault. in module %2 at %3!.04x!:%4!x
Lif is now too short, but thanks all the same Ozzymud for leading me through the mire.
Re: Solid Sate Drive in 760L [warning: a few small pics!]
You might want to test the memory... the Win 9x registry errors I remember all too well when using bad memory... It was almost ALWAYS the case.
http://www.memtest.org/download/4.20/me ... floppy.zip
or for something besides a floppy version... http://www.memtest.org/
http://www.memtest.org/download/4.20/me ... floppy.zip
or for something besides a floppy version... http://www.memtest.org/
(2)701C,(1)760EL,(6)760XL,(1)760XD
(4)CD Drives (5)int floppies (3)ext floppy (4)2.1GB
(10)CF/IDE w/2 or 4GB 133x CF (1)760XL restore CD
(1)Belkin USB 2.0 32bit Cardbus (2)WPC54G(S) Wifi Cardbus
(1)Belkin F5D5020 NIC (1)Giga-Byte GN-WLM01 Wifi
(1)Backpack CD (1) Xircom REM56G-10 + misc
(4)CD Drives (5)int floppies (3)ext floppy (4)2.1GB
(10)CF/IDE w/2 or 4GB 133x CF (1)760XL restore CD
(1)Belkin USB 2.0 32bit Cardbus (2)WPC54G(S) Wifi Cardbus
(1)Belkin F5D5020 NIC (1)Giga-Byte GN-WLM01 Wifi
(1)Backpack CD (1) Xircom REM56G-10 + misc
Re: Solid Sate Drive in 760L [warning: a few small pics!]
Not sure I follow the logic of the RAM being dud as when running W98 from the 810 HDD it works perfectly.
That said, I did get the memtest floppy and run it for an hour or so which produced much heat in the poor old thing, but not one single error.
Just been handed a retired X40 2371 8NG on a X4 UltraBase, could be time to pension the 760L off.
That said, I did get the memtest floppy and run it for an hour or so which produced much heat in the poor old thing, but not one single error.
Just been handed a retired X40 2371 8NG on a X4 UltraBase, could be time to pension the 760L off.
Re: Solid Sate Drive in 760L [warning: a few small pics!]
Could also be a faulty cf card or adapter... all those "Fatal error" and "page fault" ones sure are reminiscent of faulty memory though.
I also remember having a bad batch of CPUs where the cache was bad (easy enough on a desktop system to disable to test)
Without you having another 760 to do parts tests with... would be tough to track down. Anyhoo, hope you have more luck with your X40
I also remember having a bad batch of CPUs where the cache was bad (easy enough on a desktop system to disable to test)
Without you having another 760 to do parts tests with... would be tough to track down. Anyhoo, hope you have more luck with your X40
(2)701C,(1)760EL,(6)760XL,(1)760XD
(4)CD Drives (5)int floppies (3)ext floppy (4)2.1GB
(10)CF/IDE w/2 or 4GB 133x CF (1)760XL restore CD
(1)Belkin USB 2.0 32bit Cardbus (2)WPC54G(S) Wifi Cardbus
(1)Belkin F5D5020 NIC (1)Giga-Byte GN-WLM01 Wifi
(1)Backpack CD (1) Xircom REM56G-10 + misc
(4)CD Drives (5)int floppies (3)ext floppy (4)2.1GB
(10)CF/IDE w/2 or 4GB 133x CF (1)760XL restore CD
(1)Belkin USB 2.0 32bit Cardbus (2)WPC54G(S) Wifi Cardbus
(1)Belkin F5D5020 NIC (1)Giga-Byte GN-WLM01 Wifi
(1)Backpack CD (1) Xircom REM56G-10 + misc
Re: Solid Sate Drive in 760L [warning: a few small pics!]
I tried to do this with my IBM 765D but I ran into a snag. My 4GB Sandisk Ultra 2 shows up and works just fine in all 3 of the drive caddies, but the CD-ROM drive is no longer detected. Has anyone else run into this?
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