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CF to pcmcia adapter problem installing.

Ravenit

Ravenit

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I want to use my pcmcia to compact flash adapter but when I instal it it says Problem installing hardware Hitash flash.
An error occured during installation. Driver not intended for this application.
So its plug and pray what gives.
The CF is ok ive tried 2 different cf cards.
The adapter is ok I use it for my CF GPS.
I dont have do do some trickery and delet my gps drivers for it or something.?
Also I only have one Pcmcia slot (acer 2001 lmi laptop)
Thanks for any advice or directions.

PS.. in device manager the Ide ATA / Atapi controler has the dreaded yellow dot.
 
Well I guess I figured That but where can I get new drivers from.
The other flash card that I have doesnt even give a brand when instaling just 128_.
The cards dont need formaing to be used on a pc or something do they like fat16/32?
 
File system initialization (vulgo "formatting") comes after sorting out the hardware driver.

Normally, a CF drive in a PCMCIA slot would impersonate an IDE controller. Windows' own ATAPI.SYS driver happily handles that, as long as the CF card got all the resources for that. (You need to have an available _ISA_ interrupt for this.) Also, if some ingenious 3rd party driver chose to replace said driver file with its own version, you might see the error you see.

In other words, install the ATAPI.SYS driver as shipped by Microsoft on your Windows CD, and that should do the trick, unless you're out of resources. If you can, reserve an IRQ for "ISA/EISA" work in your machine's BIOS.
 
Thanks for the great info alas it still dont work. I stried updating the driver from the windows xp prof cd but once it finishes installing it says the same as my first post.
Tried doing a system restore to before I installed the gps drivers and then installed the cf/pcmcia card but still no go.
Its like it doesnt like the win xp drivers.
How do I reserve an IRQ for "ISA/EISA" work in my machine's BIOS.
Thanks
 
ok my laptop has a Insyde Software scu bios
In the advanced section (no pci/pnp page) there is fir ports and lpt port so I disabled lpt1, 378. irq 7
to maybe free up irq 7. I thinks thats what you meant.
But still comes up with the same driver fault.
Man the lappy is only 7 months old it should be able to handle this one little cf card.
Also tried another cf/pcmcia adapter but it still gave me the same fault.
Any more ideas.....
 
Those adapters don't "do" anything, they're just mechanical adapters. The CF card itself contains all the logic required to attach to the CardBus controller chip inside your notebook.

Either your notebook's BIOS doesn't set this controller chip up right, or the notebook's design doesn't allow running 16-bit PCMCIA cards (which is what your CF card is impersonating).

What resources did Windows give the CF card?
 
ok No resources.
This device isnt using any resources because it has a problem.
If set config manually
Irq 5
i/o range?
No conflicts

Hitachi flash
Device provider unknown
Device date Not available
Driver Version Not available
Driver Sign Not dig signed

Its shows up in ide ata/atapi controllers. But yellow
No where else in device manager
Pcmcia adapter shows as ene cb-1410 card bus controller
Thanks again for any more info
 
OK, see, it didn't get an I/O range. That's possibly because the board's BIOS didn't reserve any for CardBus use. Stupid.
You can click on the I/O ??? item, and use the scrolling list below it to find a resource window that's available for this. Chances are there aren't any, else Windows itself would have found it already.

See whether there's a BIOS update for this machine. Good luck.
 
I set the i/o to some letters that showed no conflics then reinstalled the drivers still no go.
Even reboot and reinstalled driver and checked that the i/o were still the way I left still no go.
The cf cards I have 2 of them are used in a canon camera.
They have both been formated in the camera as thats what the manual says to do.
Could that be the problem?
Will check for new bios next week
Thanks Peter
 
No that's not the problem. Your system isn't even getting to the point where it'd be looking at what's on the drive - it doesn't even manage to map the drive into the system, so access is currently not possible on a physical level.
 
http://www.computing.net/drivers/wwwboard/forum/4414.html
Name: Ingineer
Date: August 12, 2004 at 02:01:15 Pacific
Subject: CompactFlash in Windows

Reply:
I had this problem too.... I found a corrupted atapi.sys driver in C:\windows\system32\drivers.
Simply delete or rename this file, then go to your device manager, (right click on my computer, choose "properties", then the "hardware" tab, then click "Device Manager") Once in device manager, you should see the compact flash card under "disk Drives" with the yellow exclamation point next to it. Double-click it then choose "reinstall driver". Voila!

I think this corrupt file was caused by a CD-emulation utility I installed. It may "break" this utility, so you may have to reinstall later if you are using this.

-Phil

Now it works, dam peter you were correct at the begining corrupt atapi.sys I to did have a cd emulation utility installed so will have to check if it still works if no, no big deal just have to use the cd.
Thanks again....
 
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