System 7 Floppy

[fryke]

Why wouldn't you be able to use the battery when running off a floppy? The battery doesn't care... I'm not sure whether the HD or Floppy uses more power, but both work just fine when running on battery power.

[#1 Rhapsody]

Originally Posted by fryke

Why wouldn't you be able to use the battery when running off a floppy? The battery doesn't care... I'm not sure whether the HD or Floppy uses more power, but both work just fine when running on battery power.

I think you need at least the minimal install for the battery icon to show up. Because of this, I don't think it knows that there is a battery installed when I boot from a Network Access disk.

[icemanjc]

Running off of the battery is hardware and not software related. The PMU board controls this.

I looked around and I can't find any scsi hard drives that are seperate from the computer, your best bet is to buy a laptop and take the hard drive out of that, but it's kind of defeating the purpose.

[#1 Rhapsody]

Originally Posted by icemanjc

Running off of the battery is hardware and not software related. The PMU board controls this.

If that is the case then why can't I run from battery for a bit. I would think with 2 batteries at least 1 would hold even a small charge. I have used the battery reconditioning software several times and the batteries never work.

[icemanjc]

Originally Posted by #1 Rhapsody

If that is the case then why can't I run from battery for a bit. I would think with 2 batteries at least 1 would hold even a small charge. I have used the battery reconditioning software several times and the batteries never work.

That laptop is pretty old, back when I had a Duo 230 with about three batteries that did not hold a charge at all so it's probably the same in this situation as well. Also those batteries aren't as efficient at today's.

Reconditioning never made a difference for me either with any laptop that it worked on.