Re: Newton 1Meg SRAM cards + PCs

Dean Cashen (deanc@hpbs114.boi.hp.com)
Thu, 2 Feb 95 10:15 PST

> But unlike Dean Cashen, I was unable to make my 5mb EduCalc Flash
> card do the same. Card is recognized by the Zoomer with no problems,
> but my notebook seems to not even recognize that the card's in the
> slot (talk about OLD PCMCIA drivers) when using the FORMAT command or
> any of the PCMCIA utilities included. If anyone can recommend a
> solution..... otherwise I can limp along just fine with my 1 mb.

Although I got mine (5&10MB) to work, I wish I could tell you how (!).
At first I couldn't get the PC to recognize the cards at all; no
drive identifier (I:, J:, so forth), so I couldn't format them.
In my e-mail I said I formatted them in the zoomer and my PC
could recognize them, but that wasn't the actual sequence of
events. In fact, I'm not sure I even DID anything to get
them to work, but I "played" with them and my PC, and one of the
last things I did was format them in the zoomer, plugged 'em
into the PC, looked for them. . . no go. Rebooted. . no go.
I moved some drivers from hi mem to low, rebooted. . . again,
nothing. So, lying in bed, after rebooting a dozen times
(actually, a lot more than that), power-cycling the PC,
plugging the 5 & 10MB cards in my zoomer and seeing they
actually DO work, I plugged them into my PC and . . . the
5MB worked, but the 10MB didn't. Between NOT being able
to get them recognized and getting them recognized in my
PC I did NOTHING to the PC, but, it seems, it "decided" to
see the 5MB card. I couldn't see the 10MB in the PC, but
could in the zoomer, so I formatted it in the zoomer and
then I could see it in the PC.

So, while I said formatting in the zoomer "got it to work",
that wasn't the complete case. It seemed to get the 10MB
card working, but in truth NOTHING worked until it "just
started working," then I formatted the 10MB-that-worked-in-
the-zoomer-but-still-not-the-PC card and it . . . worked.

So, somewhere in there is a hint, but it's lost on me ;-).
(Sounds like typical PC "try-this/try-that" is the key).

Regards,
Dean Cashen
deanc@hpbs114.boi.hp.com

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