Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:08:47 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Libretto #221
In a message dated 9/20/2003 8:06:44 AM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Thanks, Lee. :-) I've put a bit over $130 into it so far, getting it > operational. Someone put a larger HD in for me and loaded 98se ... in > English! ;-D Still having trouble getting it to recognize the floppy > drive I bought. I've got a USRobotics 33.6 modem card for it that hooked > right up fine. So now I have at least some way to get info in and out. > Yes, it is a 100ct, and I'm totally charmed by it. I had a compaq aero > once that I thought was small and handy. I drove that one into the > ground. But this one is even cuter! Once I have battery power for it I > can see having it in my coat pocket all the time. So, here's a > question: When I first got the power thingy, I plugged it in, let it > charge all night and then ran it on this very battery for about an hour > before it demanded to be plugged back in. And now that same battery > seems to be dead as a doornail. Did I do something wrong? Are there > things I should know that I don't? Also, I thought I saw something on > here when I first signed on, written mostly in greek-to-me, about > building a longer life battery. Did I imagine this? If it's true, > could someone translate that infor into english for me please? Or tell > me where to find it? :-) Thanks. Verlie > There are a series of utilities and drivers written specifically for the L100CT at the Toshiba site. Not to scare you off, but there has developed on this list and elsewhere (www.fixup.net) a "recipe", or maybe several, for preparing a new hard drive in a Libretto. Unless specific procedures are followed, you'll have trouble with hibernation, standby, and maybe other features. Your floppy problem is one, albeit minor, example. When you visit the Tosh support site, download the L110CT W98 Floppy Drive driver, unzip it and install. It will fix you up (assuming you have the Libretto-specific floppy drive, that is). Check the archives of this site (sorry, I don't have the URL on this PC) for tons of past posts on setting up W98. Having said that, lots of Librettoists have decided that W2K is the preferred operating system. I can't disagree, as my carefully prepared W98se install is now starting to flake out. I'll be setting up my new 40GB HDD dual-boot, W98se & W2K Pro. You didn't do anything wrong with your attempt at battery charging - probably just have a bad battery. If you can locate a new PA2503UR battery, you'll get about 4 hours of light, power-conscious use from it. The higher-capacity battery mentioned on this list I think was reported to run for about 4.5-5 hours, but it is custom-made by one of the list members. Good luck! Lee ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
