Re: NTLK newton & flash card

From: Ben Doughney (ben_d@clear.net.nz)
Date: Sat May 06 2000 - 02:51:02 CDT


>Hi,
>
>I just bought a newton 2000... I had an old 2Mb flash card, but after
>inserting it's gives a error that the disk is unreadable :(
>
>My powerbook has no problem with the card. It's a 2Mb PCMCIA PC CARD ATA...
>
>Do I need to format it to a different format?
>
>Thanx,
>
>Christoph Kempen
ATA PCMCIA cards will not work with a Newton. They use a totally
different format to store the data. You need to use a Linear PCMCIA card.

Ben Doughney

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