Using the Compact Flash Card
Chapter 4: Troubleshooting the PA PowerStation
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PA PowerStation User Guide
Reinstalling the
PowerStation
Utilities
The PA PowerStation is shipped with the operating system and
software, which is installed on the CompactFlash card that comes with
your system.
Backup copies of your software are provided on the PA PowerStation
CD that ships with your system. If any of the software on your system
becomes lost or corrupted, you can reinstall it from this distribution
disk.
Restoring a CompactFlash Card
Because you use a CompactFlash (CF) card as the startup drive in a PA
PowerStation, you should create a bootable CF card for the system
from a blank or used card. This procedure will fix a ROM-DOS Shell
CompactFlash card and let you do the following:
•
Reinstall the PowerStation Utilities onto a CF card
•
Prepare a new CF card for use
You can easily reformat a CompactFlash card by using CTC’s
Flashback Utility, which restores the ROM-DOS operating system and
PA PowerStation operating files to a CF card in one operation.
When you use Flashback, the following software will be replaced on
your CompactFlash card:
•
Operating system
•
System drivers
•
MachineShop Shell
Writing to the CompactFlash Card
To write to the CompactFlash card, you will need one of the following:
•
A personal computer running Windows with a CD-ROM drive
and a SanDisk ImageMate or any CompactFlash card PC reader/
writer. A SanDisk ImageMate is a CompactFlash reader/writer
that connects to the personal computer through a USB port. You
can order a SanDisk ImageMate (model number IMG-2000) from
your local Parker distributor.
•
A laptop computer running Windows with a CD-ROM drive and a
PCMCIA-to-CompactFlash adapter. The PCMCIA-to-
CompactFlash adapter lets you read from or write to a
CompactFlash card through your laptop’s PCMCIA slot. You can
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