HP 200LX

From: Andrew Prince <freddyboomboom_at_comcast.net>
Date: Thu Apr 1 21:22:25 2004

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 07:59, Jay West wrote:

> It acts like it doesn't recognize the card. If I do a fdisk100, it says
> something to the effect that "fdisk not supported on drive a", and if I do a
> format "cannot format drive a".

> I am the first owner of the 200LX and I have never used
> any pcmcia devices in it, perhaps it is broken? I hate to spend money on
> another CD & PCMCIA adapter if it's broken :\
>


The CF card I use is a Sandisk SDCFB, also.

Are you running the cic100 card and socket services driver?

Go to a DOS prompt and run mem /c to find out.

If you aren't running it, you won't be able to use any flash cards, and
most other PCMCIA cards also.

If you need to run it, it is in the d: drive in ROM. In the bin
directory.

If you boot the 200LX without an autoexec.bat and config.sys in the c:
drive, it uses the ones in d: by default. You can also hit the alt key
right after booting to tell it to boot from the d: drive.

Remember that booting will turn on the serial port, so you need to go
into setup and turn it off so it doesn't drain the batteries too soon. A
nice program for doing that is ppal.exe.

TTFN
Andrew
Received on Thu Apr 01 2004 - 21:22:25 BST