Re: [LIB] CF Card & Libretto
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:21:36 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] CF Card & Libretto --- Anthony Oresteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 06:33:10 -0500 > From: "Anthony Oresteen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] CF Card & Libretto > > Everything is fine! I think it is was CF to PCMCIA adapter. I changed > to a Dazzel adapter from a SANDISK and it is fine. All my CF cards work > fine. > > I loaned the SANDISK adapter out; when I get it back I'll retest. Aaaccc Sounds to me like a Sandisk attack again :-/ Let us know what happens when you re-test things with the Sandisk adapter. You just may find the Sansdisk adapter >wasn't< the problem now that I think about it. There are no components inside those CF adapters but a circuit board that only connects the pins on the Lib's PCMCIA slot to the sockets in the CF card. Basically just a bunch of wires. Could Sandisk really mess up something that simple?? Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] CF Card & Libretto
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 06:33:10 -0500 From: "Anthony Oresteen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] CF Card & Libretto Everything is fine! I think it is was CF to PCMCIA adapter. I changed to a Dazzel adapter from a SANDISK and it is fine. All my CF cards work fine. I loaned the SANDISK adapter out; when I get it back I'll retest. Tony Oresteen KG4SPA 407-469-2818 home 407-256-4215 cell Montverde, FL - Original Message - From: "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Libretto" Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 1:19 AM Subject: Re: [LIB] CF Card & Libretto Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 22:18:50 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] CF Card & Libretto --- Tony Oresteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I leave the CF in the Libretto and re-boot Windows 98, Windows 98SE > crashes. I remove the CF card, reboot and all is fine. Once Windows is > booted I can insert the CF card and Win98 sees it just fine. I've tried > it with CF cards that are 64mb, 128mm, 512mb, and 1 gb. Same problem. > Windows 98 won't boot with the CF card in place. Tony... Did you ever get this issue ironed out? My 1st thought was a problem with the Sandisk CF card. But you said you tried several other CF cards. They weren't all Sandisk cards, were they? From my expereinces with a portable MP3 player & its support list, the Sandisk brand was the brand that was the most problematic. Hardware builders don't always test all brands of CF cards, and CF manufacturers don't test their cards in all hardware components. And it seems a few brands, Sandisk in particular, seem to have more than the average number of problems working properly in a lot of devices. Then, as David Chien mentioned, it could very well have something to do with overclocking, as you seem to have had another related problem (CD-ROM copying?) Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] CF Card & Libretto
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 22:18:50 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] CF Card & Libretto --- Tony Oresteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I leave the CF in the Libretto and re-boot Windows 98, Windows 98SE > crashes. I remove the CF card, reboot and all is fine. Once Windows is > booted I can insert the CF card and Win98 sees it just fine. I've tried > it with CF cards that are 64mb, 128mm, 512mb, and 1 gb. Same problem. > Windows 98 won't boot with the CF card in place. Tony... Did you ever get this issue ironed out? My 1st thought was a problem with the Sandisk CF card. But you said you tried several other CF cards. They weren't all Sandisk cards, were they? From my expereinces with a portable MP3 player & its support list, the Sandisk brand was the brand that was the most problematic. Hardware builders don't always test all brands of CF cards, and CF manufacturers don't test their cards in all hardware components. And it seems a few brands, Sandisk in particular, seem to have more than the average number of problems working properly in a lot of devices. Then, as David Chien mentioned, it could very well have something to do with overclocking, as you seem to have had another related problem (CD-ROM copying?) Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] CF Card & Libretto
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:11:48 -0500 From: "Tony Oresteen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] CF Card & Libretto Dick, Strange things are going on. I've rebooted 3 times now and Windows 98 starts just fine. I didn't do anything. It just started booting OK. I'm at a loss now. Let's see what happens tomorrow. Tony Oresteen Montverde, FL - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Libretto" Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 3:46 PM Subject: RE: [LIB] CF Card & Libretto Dick wrote: It would be interesting to know what the problem is. Dick Sullivan
Re: [LIB] CF Card & Libretto
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:11:03 +0100 From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] CF Card & Libretto Tony Oresteen wrote: > > Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:20:01 -0500 > From: "Tony Oresteen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: CF Card & Libretto > > A tip & a question. > > Tip: I've been using a Compact Flash card to move data from my desktop to my > Libretto. I use a CF to PCMCIA adapter in the Libretto 100CT and a CF USB > reader on my desktop. > > For $75 I bought a new SanDisk 1 GB CF card from B&H Photo NY. You can copy > an entire cd-rom to the CF card and then copy it to the HD in the LIBRETTO > without needing to haul an external CD-ROM drive. Use a USB 2.0 CF reader if > you can (My home readed is USB 2.0, my work readed is USB 1.1. Big > difference!!!) > > Question: > > If I leave the CF in the Libretto and re-boot Windows 98, Windows 98SE > crashes. I remove the CF card, reboot and all is fine. Once Windows is > booted I can insert the CF card and Win98 sees it just fine. I've tried it > with CF cards that are 64mb, 128mm, 512mb, and 1 gb. Same problem. Windows > 98 won't boot with the CF card in place. > > The message I get is that there is a problem with the STACKS and to increase > it. No mater what I do with the STACKS command in the CONFIG.SYS file Win98 > crashes on boot with a CF card inserted into the PCMCIA slot. > > Any ides? Tried it here on a L110 with a 96 MB CF card I use for my digicams. Win98 boots fine However, this CF card is formatted FAT16 (only newer digicams format or even support CF cards formatted FAT32). Perhaps FAT32 makes a difference? Re suggestions: I can't imagine it is due to STACKS. In fact, my CONFIG.SYS contains only DEVICE=PANNING.SYS FILES=80 and AUTOEXEC.BAT contains: SET TEMP=C:\TEMP SET TMP=C:\TEMP + some environment strings for OpenWatcom. Those are really all the "working" statements. What's the BIOS setting for the PCMCIA/Cardbus slots? Here it set to "Auto". Philip NB: I'll unsubscribe from this list for a few weeks due to a stay abroad w/o email (the mail space on my ISP's POP server will rapidly fill up with spam anyway...)
RE: [LIB] CF Card & Libretto
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:46:08 -0800 From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] CF Card & Libretto Tony, I have a L100CT that I have used for at least 2 years with a 1 Gig IBM micro drive and W98SE. This is a CF size drive with a PCMCIA adapter. It has never done this in my Libretto, but it would crash my desk machine running Win98SE on boot (I have a PCMCIA drive in my desktop). I have since gone to W2000 on the L100CT, so I can no longer check it. But the IBM drive does not crash in the L100CT with W2000 either. I also have a 15M CF card that I have used exactly like you do, and I cannot remember it ever crashing the L100CT, but I can't say for sure I booted with it in the L100CT. I also have a Sony MS adapter and multiple size MS flash cards that have been used in the L100CT without ever crashing it. Again, I believe I booted up while I had W98SE installed, but I can't be certain. I get no error message on my desk machine when it fails to boot, it just sits there with a black screen until I pull the flash card and reboot. It would be interesting to know what the problem is. Dick Sullivan Question: If I leave the CF in the Libretto and re-boot Windows 98, Windows 98SE crashes. I remove the CF card, reboot and all is fine. Once Windows is booted I can insert the CF card and Win98 sees it just fine. I've tried it with CF cards that are 64mb, 128mm, 512mb, and 1 gb. Same problem. Windows 98 won't boot with the CF card in place. The message I get is that there is a problem with the STACKS and to increase it. No mater what I do with the STACKS command in the CONFIG.SYS file Win98 crashes on boot with a CF card inserted into the PCMCIA slot. Any ides? Tony Oresteen Montverde, FL
[LIB] CF Card & Libretto
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:20:01 -0500 From: "Tony Oresteen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: CF Card & Libretto A tip & a question. Tip: I've been using a Compact Flash card to move data from my desktop to my Libretto. I use a CF to PCMCIA adapter in the Libretto 100CT and a CF USB reader on my desktop. For $75 I bought a new SanDisk 1 GB CF card from B&H Photo NY. You can copy an entire cd-rom to the CF card and then copy it to the HD in the LIBRETTO without needing to haul an external CD-ROM drive. Use a USB 2.0 CF reader if you can (My home readed is USB 2.0, my work readed is USB 1.1. Big difference!!!) Question: If I leave the CF in the Libretto and re-boot Windows 98, Windows 98SE crashes. I remove the CF card, reboot and all is fine. Once Windows is booted I can insert the CF card and Win98 sees it just fine. I've tried it with CF cards that are 64mb, 128mm, 512mb, and 1 gb. Same problem. Windows 98 won't boot with the CF card in place. The message I get is that there is a problem with the STACKS and to increase it. No mater what I do with the STACKS command in the CONFIG.SYS file Win98 crashes on boot with a CF card inserted into the PCMCIA slot. Any ides? Tony Oresteen Montverde, FL
