Re: Workpad Z50 unable to detect/use Microdrive ?

Hi Larry,

I've followed this thread with interest. I have one of these machines but I've not worked with it in several years. I know that I could follow your emails, but have you considered doing a blog post on your trials and errors so that others could give this a shot? I'm sure that others have this machine floating about (as I have). If you have a blog it could be very helpful to share what worked and what didn't.

But of course, only if you have the time.

Dereck

On Sunday, April 26, 2015 8:11 PM, Larry Stotler <larrystotler%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

Picked up 2 - 6GB Hitachi Microdrives. Figured out a work-around for
not having the atadsk.dll. Copied the pdsboot.exe & netbsd.gz to the
My Documents folder under CE and inserted the microdrive and started
the NetBSD install.

However, the installer fails to see either of the microdrives. when
inserted after boot install, I get:

card appears to have bogus CIS

Googled it but can't really find any useful hints...... Something
about bad PCI(which it doesn't have)

On another note, I installed Ted since it's a rich text format editor
like WordPad, and I can't get it to do anything other than show the
startup image. I try to open a file or create a new file and it does
SOMETHING(the drive light blinks for a while) but then it still shows
the startup screen.........

Needless to say I am getting a bit underwhelmed about actually being
able to use NetBSD on this productively........

Thanx for all the help.