Re: Newton 1MB Card in Zoomer

Mingfang Li (mli@huey.csun.edu)
Tue, 22 Nov 94 00:19 PST

On Mon, 21 Nov 1994 ChrisD16@aol.com wrote:

> Hi,
> The problem is with the format of the card. The SRAM 1mb cards are in a
> proprietary format because they are PCMCIA type I cards. The Zoomer uses the
> ATA FAT software to access the PCMCIA ram cards. Flash cards resemble ide
> hard disks to the Zoomer. The software driving the cards (Sun's ATA driver)
> decides what format to use.

Chris,

Interestingly enough I decided to try the card again while returning
Zoomer to stock configuration and I found the following: I got the card
formatted with HP100LX, setup \GEOWORKS\DOCUMENT and \GEOWORKS\WORLD, copied
a few files from pc, such as your FAQ in notebook format. Both the Zoomer
and HP100LX read the card fine now. The card name I gave using Zoomer
shows up as a label while inserted in my HP100LX.

Before I did this I set up my Zoomer with an ini file posted in c.s.p that
is supposed to beef up the performace of the Zoomer. There might be a few
options that have been changed in that ini file.

Thanks for the info.
>
> I'm not sure what the HP driver supports.
>
> Just keep in mind that there are two standards ATA and MFS, both support SRAM
> cards in their proprietary format.
>
> I hope that this helps!
>
> Chris De Herrera
>

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