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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn A4 Laptop Repair

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Does anyone have any idea why "HDD0" (the name of my primary partition) shows up twice on the taskbar? When I click on the one to the right, the cursor shows "busy" indefinitely and I can't use the floppy drive.
You need to do this:

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Press F12*Configure IDEDiscs 0Press Enter to exit the CLIReset (Ctrl-shift-F12, power off, count to five, power on)
Short explanation is both ADFS and Wizzo are trying to handle the hard drive. If you leave it like this, you'll probably end up corrupting it.
I've removed the leaky NiCad batteries from the battery pack and I'm leaving it empty, the owner is happy to use the A4 from the PSU anyway - is there any way to trick the OS into realising that the battery is dead or full rather than open-circuit, so I don't just get a "?" in the % box?
No, that number comes from the BMU chip. The BMU tracks until the battery reports as full, then sets the reported value to 100%. From memory it's just a basic current tracker, so it's not terribly accurate. If it doesn't detect a battery, it'll just report "?" because it doesn't know what the charge percentage is.
The batteries have no intelligence at all, they're just a temperature sensor (two diodes I think?), a thermal fuse and a pile of batteries.
Thank you :-) I've disabled the ADFS drive and I now have four IDEFS partitions that seem to be working nicely, thanks again.
Ah, if the BMU chip is doing coulomb counting rather than just basing SoC off battery voltage then there's not much I can do, that's a shame.

Statistics: Posted by TheMightyMadman — Thu Sep 12, 2024 10:06 pm



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