Any wiki about CF-H1 ?

Been browsing a bit and seen very few information about the CF-H1 around the net... Main question is what is the differences between the different revisions ( CF-H1A/B/C)
And is it possible to add an aftermarket gobi modem to a unit that did not have one... I'm waiting for a MCA unit and might just use it as is but would love to pop in a gobi modem since I have access to cheap data plans.

Also... any service manual on these floating around?

 

Mostly just the amount of RAM and type of HDD.

Older units like A and B are 80GB spinning drive and 1GB RAM
C units are newer and mostly field pro models with 64GB SSD and 2GB RAM

The GOBI isn't gonna be possible for a reasonable cost because if it didn't come with GOBI then that means it doesn't have the daughter board to take the gobi and it costs a TON of $$ to put that in.

Thanks!

 

Tkx for the info, from the pictures I saw from the internals, there is a mini PCIe connector on the motherboard.... so what is missing would be the sim card reader and antenna and the modem itself that can be cheap on e-bay. when you are speaking about a daughter board you are speaking about sim reader pcb and antennas? pretty small components, can't be that expensive, have any quotes for the parts? Any special technique/tool needed to open a CF-H1 MCA unit? Receiving mine tomorrow.

 

The unit i recived is an CF-H1BDJBZ6M, the hard disk is wiped of cource, no os installed.
Try to pop in a dvd with windows 7 and it does not boot, did set the boot order, even tried the boot overide and legacy mode, but only see the internal hardrive.
It also refuse to boot from network, no F8 menu. Did run the diag utility from the bootscreen Ctrl+ F7, pass all the tests.

Read the documentation... is there something I'm missing? Seem like boot devices from the cradle cannot be seen. Got the CF-VEBH11U. Did use a generic windows 7, and an external dvd burner that I know is working.

Help

 

It might be that the drivers you need to for the device to recognize your hard drive are not in the windows 7 generic install disk. I have a similar model and had problems when I used Acronis at bootup. If you can get an restore disk that is best or others here might know what drivers you need to get it working.

 

Pretty sure it's not a driver issue, it only try to seek on hard drive on boot, it did pass the test with pc utility(Ctrl + F7). Does not try to boot from network or external usb DVD and can't see USB DVD in the bios exit menu in Boot Overide only show the internal hardrive. USB work fine on the cradle since I can use the usb keyboard to browse in the bios.
The hardrive had a security wipe on it, is it possible it's missing a partition for a proper boot? Read somewhere in the docs that on the hard drive there was a partition to keep some log about craches and stuff...

So well.. for now, the only stuff I see in Boot Overide in the bios is Toshiba MK8017GSG, nothing else. Think I'll have to call the seller or Panasonic about that issue, to see if they have some clues...

 

If it is easy to access the hard drive on that model, try a boot cycle with out the hard drive installed and see if it will recognize the DVD drive on boot. If it will let it boot from usb dvd, then shut it down and put the hard drive back in. On some other toughbook models that will work. Pulling the hard drive and then putting it back in.

 

Did try that today, without any hard drive, it goes strait to the bios and won't detect any external DVD connected and when I put back the hard drive... only seek the hard drive as a boot device. Next thing I'll try is installing the os on the hardrive from my main PC, did order a sata adapter to do so since it's a smaller interface than in 2.5" and 3.5" sata drives.

 

It's alive! The only issue, the barcode reader add a zero for UPC-A, and in the config scripts, there is no batch file for that setting. it's currently UPC-A -> EAN and I need UPC-A -> UPC-A.

Anyone got a clue?