Re: Newton 1MB Card in Zoomer

Khoa Ton (khoa@hpisrht.cup.hp.com)
Mon, 21 Nov 94 15:35 PST

> Hi,
>
> I recently got a Newton 1MB Card (from CWD) for my Zoomer. What I
> discovered is that the card formatted using Zoomer can not be read by my
> HP100LX Palmtop. When I formatted the card using HP100LX and created a few
> subdirectories, Zoomer can recognize the card but not the subdirectories.
> After creating some subdirectories from Zoomer, HP100LX can not show the
> directory names.
>
> What's interesting is that my SunDisk Flash ROM card can be read from
> Zoomer with no trouble at all. I was hoping to use the RAM card for file
> transfers etc through HP100LX. It seems now I have run into problems.

I have no such problems with my HP 100LX and Zoomer with a Newton 1MB card.

Check to see if you have a disk compression driver loaded for your A: drive
on the HP 100LX. Reboot with the standard D:\CONFIG.SYS and D:\AUTOEXEC.BAT
(bypassing your modifications) if you have compression in A:.

Khoa