Has this happened to anyone? My understanding of Flash Ram, is that no power is
required to maintain the memory (That why their is no battery backup on Flash).
Shouldn't the systems low battery protection shut it down in time? For things
to get this bad wouldn't the OGO Lithium battery backup have been close to dead?
Manufacters Advertized Power numbers:
SRAM Power Consumption
MagicRAM SyncroTech Pretec
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Standard: 16mA 16ma
Peak: 150mA 150ma 120ma(max)
Standby: 1mA Max. 1ma 0.4ma(max)
Pretec ATA Flash Ram
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Power-saving read: 20 mA (Max.)
Power-saving write: 25 mA (Max.)
High-performance read: 65 mA (Max.)
High-performance write: 80 mA (Max.)
Sleep mode: 0.6 mA
Pretecs ATA Flash doesn't appear to be anyworse than the SRAM cards (assuming
power saving mode). If anything the peaks are significantly less. Sleep mode
too.
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> ATA cards are not certified for use in the OmniGo 100. According to HP, only
> SRAM cards should be used. Your warranty for using the new low-powered flash
> cards rests with the manufacturer of the card.
HP must have had some plans for ATA, since they included ATA driver in the OGO ROM.
The HP manual, and web site are not very clear on what will work.
That brings me to my next point. Since this topic has been so confusing to many, it
needs to elaborated more in the OGO FAQ. I already talked with Ron Pike, and he
agrees. I am willing to help anyway I can to do this. I have already visited many
manufacturers web sites, and called some. I've saved many of the Email message
over the last month pertaining to RAM cards from all of the news groups and the
mailing list. I was even thinking I could take a survey on OGO users that have
RAM cards and find out what types, specs, formatting and battery issues they had.
Is this worthwhile?
Dom