Upper card slot (drive E) Lower card slot (drive D) Floppy drive (drive A) About the Card Slot Drives The hard disk drive (C) and the floppy disk drive (A) are provided with the OmniBook. Drive D and/or drive E are available when PCMCIA mass storage devices are plugged into the respective slots. Example: Drive Icons in File Manager Drive C is seldom removed. If you do change or remove and reinsert drive C, push the OmniBook’s reset button afterward. C A U T I O N Before attempting to change or remove drive C, close all applications and exit Program Manager (and Windows). Then turn the OmniBook off, unplug the ac adapter, and remove the battery.
If you don’t follow this procedure, you could lose unsaved data or damage the drive or the OmniBook. About the Card-Slot Drives • The upper and lower card slots are normally drive E and drive D respectively. If you insert a double-height (type III) card in the lower slot, it’s drive D—drive E isn’t available. If you insert an I/O card in a card slot, the corresponding drive becomes unavailable. • If you create another drive on your OmniBook—such as a RAM disk in memory using the RAMDRIVE driver—it may cause the card slots to have drive letters higher than drive E.
The table below describes several types of PCMCIA disks supported by the OmniBook— how they operate and how you can use them with the OmniBook. 18