Re: OG100 and DOS

William Ofosu-Amaah (XI6W-OFSA@asahi-net.or.jp)
Sat, 8 Jun 1996 08:05:59 +0900

At 09:41 AM 6/7/96 -0700, Philip J. Mercurio wrote:
>: Also out of curiousity, what drive letter does the MagicRam
>: Linear flash card show up as on the OG?
>
>It shows up as drive F:.

Aah, just as I had expected since the next available drive for
the Magic Ram driver is the F: drive.

>Since OgFile only has menu items for A:, B:, and C:, I tried
>rearranging things in the GEOS.INI file to call the flash card
>C:. I couldn't get this to work, I'm guessing because the MagicRAM
>driver assumes F:. Maybe there's an option to the driver to
>select the drive letter,
[CUT]

What you could try is and note that I haven't tried this
on the OG so it is purely hypothetical...
First, I must warn you that this might not work at all! So
backup your hardware and make sure OGEDIT is on the B: drive
in case you have to re-edit the config.sys.

If you don't also have an SRAM card or an ATA Flash card,
Edit you config sys using OGEDIT and comment out:

device = a:\pcmcia\spkss2.sys /p2
device = a:\pcmcia\atadrvlp.exe /d:1

They should become:
REM device = a:\...
REM device = a:\...

Commenting this out will remove the drive letter reservation of
C: and D: for SRAM use and E: for ATA Flash ram use.
It would also remove support for SRAM and ATA flash cards.
Your MagicRam Flash card should then become the C: drive.

I again have to stress that I have never tried this on the OG
so do a full backup and be prepared to do a hard system reset
and loose your data!
The above I have done many a time on notebooks also running
DOS SystemSoft PCMCIA drivers (like the HP does) and it
worked with with a hitch but I have no idea what HP did
on the OG. Also this would be very unsupported by HP :-)

Let me know if this helps/works.

William