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First post, by Niezgodka

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I have an old laptop (Compaq LTE) with no USB. I need to transfer a lot of data on hdd. Usually I connect its HDD to USB, but since It has PCMCIA slot, I want to give it a try.
The card looks just like that:
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I understand that there will be some config.sys files on boot disk. But which ones?
How fast is the transfer that way? Is there a limit for CF card size?

Reply 4 of 15, by retrofanatic

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Great question. I'm looking for the same thing for a couple of my pcmcia to cf adapters as well. I hope someone can shed some light on this. As a workaround you can use win98 on another partition and move your files within win98 and then make the dos partition bootable after the fact...I wouldn't know exactly how to do it but I'm sure it is possible....just a thought.

Reply 5 of 15, by Rawit

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For DOS you can try CardSoft. I had it running on my old DOS laptop. You do need info on your PCMCIA hardware though, as there are a lot of CardSoft packages out there, made for specific hardware/laptops.

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Reply 6 of 15, by b_rros

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Niezgodka wrote:

So there is no any? I have CDROM PCMCIA boot disk, so I thought that there is one for CF adapters.

Hi, any chance of sharing that boot disk image'?
I have an old HP PCMCIA connected CDROM but I was only able to use it in Windows, would love to give it a try with Dos.

Thanks

Reply 7 of 15, by lolo799

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For the PCMCIA-CF card adapter, here you go:
http://www.tssc.de/site/default.aspx#http://w … ab/default.aspx
Tested with a noname PCMCIA-CF adapter and cards ranging from 32MB to 2GB, in pure DOS of course, you don't even need to load Card&Socket services in your config.sys.

Yes it's a 14 days trial version with a waiting screen, but if it works fine, might as well spend a bit, right?

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Reply 10 of 15, by Niezgodka

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b_rros wrote:
Hi, any chance of sharing that boot disk image'? I have an old HP PCMCIA connected CDROM but I was only able to use it in Window […]
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Niezgodka wrote:

So there is no any? I have CDROM PCMCIA boot disk, so I thought that there is one for CF adapters.

Hi, any chance of sharing that boot disk image'?
I have an old HP PCMCIA connected CDROM but I was only able to use it in Windows, would love to give it a try with Dos.

Thanks

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Reply 12 of 15, by RacoonRider

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mockingbird wrote:

Why don't you check the Vendor and Device ID of the adapter? That might help you find a driver.

The adapters are very generic and only connect lines, it's the PCMCIA part of the notebook that needs drivers.

Reply 13 of 15, by RacoonRider

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lolo799 wrote:
For the PCMCIA-CF card adapter, here you go: http://www.tssc.de/site/default.aspx#http://w … ab/default.aspx Tested with a nonam […]
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For the PCMCIA-CF card adapter, here you go:
http://www.tssc.de/site/default.aspx#http://w … ab/default.aspx
Tested with a noname PCMCIA-CF adapter and cards ranging from 32MB to 2GB, in pure DOS of course, you don't even need to load Card&Socket services in your config.sys.

Yes it's a 14 days trial version with a waiting screen, but if it works fine, might as well spend a bit, right?

Thank you very much! ATAENAB works well for me, I can access my CF card via PCMCIA.

Reply 15 of 15, by RacoonRider

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lolo799 wrote:

UNATA should work too.

Unfortunately, it does not 🙁

I made a batch file to surpass the trial period limitations. It consists of two lines and with it ATAENAB will work forever:
date 09-11-2015
ataenab

I don't care about the broken date, at least not on a DOS gaming machine 😀 I'd love to buy the product, but 40 euros +20 for shipping is way too much, I bought the libretto for less.