Welcome to Tips & Tricks for The Omnibook 800!
The Omnibook 800's manuals in pdf format can be found/ downloaded from
HP's Web Site.
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Simple Technology Flash Cards and the Omnibook
Specific card
at issue is:
40MB flash (STI-ATA/40)
16MB Compact FLash
(Thanks to Bill Vickerman, Longden Loo)
With most flash
cards no drivers are normally needed using the default Windows 95 installed
drivers.
Sundisk cards are correctly seen and registered in the
ControlPanel, System, DeviceManager, HardDiskControllers as a "Sundisk ATA
Flashdisk".
However, the Simple Tech cards trigger Windows 95 to install
an additonal "standard ide/esdi hard disk controller" driver (besides the one
thats installed).
The new entry however, has an exclamation mark on the
icon and under properties, general, device_status gives the message
"this
device is not present, not working properly......".
This is how the
entry looks both before and after a system reboot.
The Properties,
Resource tab for the card's will show:
"standard ide/esdi hard disk
controller"
"no conflicts", and resource_type are:
io range
0170-0177
io range 0376-0377
int req 09
The solution to make the
card recognized is to go into:
ControlPanel, System, DeviceManager,
HardDiskControllers, Properties, Resource and:
- Uncheck "use automatic
settings"
- Set "setting based on" field to "basic configuration 0004"
(the default is 0000 or 0001).
Note: This changes the "resouce settings"
from two
Input/Output ranges to only one, and lets you modify it.
-
Double click the Input/Output range and change the value from the default
"0000-000F" to "0110-011F", then OK.
- At this point, the Simple card is
recognizable by Explorer.
One again I'd like to thank Bill
Vickerman and Longden Loo for this great tip.
Alternative floppy disk drive.
Here is a replacement/alternative drive for the original HP floppy
drive.
(Omnibook 530-800 only).
Big Micro has a $12.50 floppy
drive that has been reported to work with the
Omnibook 530, 600 and 800,
using the HP floppy drive cable.
For the drive visit:
Big Micro Page 17 of their online catalog.
The HP floppy disk cable can be ordered from the HP Direct Ordering
Department for :
$53.00 PartNumber: 8120-6921
Phone: 1-800-227-8164
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