Re: OmniGo current drain (fwd)

Chris Immer (immer@Magnet.FSU.EDU)
Mon, 12 Aug 1996 15:27:13 -0400 (EDT)

The battery watcher program resets on a reboot on my system. I have
tried installing in the OGO memory and on and SRAM card. It resets on
reboot wherever I install it.

Does the Battery Watcher program store its information in GEOS.INI?
If this is so, it would make sense why my mine resets on reboot. Every
Reboot I copy GEOS.NEW to GEOS.INI beause I have a few changes that I
wanted to make in GEOS.INI. Could Battery Watcher be changed to store
its info in a file of it own?

> Marcus Groeber wrote:
>
> > ps: Does anyone have a conclusive result yet on the problem that the total time
> > kept by Battery Watcher doesn't survive a reboot? I have just read through last
> > week's mail and couldn't figure out a specific pattern, except for something
> > that has to do with installing it on an SRAM card...
>
> I installed Battery Watcher on an SRAM card and I haven't had the
> clear-to-zero problems others have mentioned.
>
> I did have one strange problem: I had to do a paperclip-reboot
> (don't insert batteries, even one, backward!), and when batwatch
> came up, it read 300 minutes, which was about half of the 600
> minutes it registered when it crashed.
>
> This could be because, to reinitialize, I installed a geos.ini that
> I had saved before the crash.
>
> BTW, I am keeping a spreadsheet of battery usage which I will post when
> I have a little more data.
>
> David
>
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Chris Immer Immer@magnet.fsu.edu