Re: [NTLK] PMCIA Flash Memory Card Drivers

From: Karel Jansens <kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be>
Date: Mon Aug 07 2006 - 19:22:43 EDT

James Nichols schreef:
> It's not a stupid question. It would make a large amount of sense to
> use these cards in this fashion.
>
> Your PC can read and write data to the card just fine - what it can't
> understand is the way the card is _formatted_, nor how a newton
> stores data on the card. In theory, someone could write software to
> allow a pc to understand these cards, but such doesn't exist.
>
> There are a couple of tools in linux that people have used to make an
> exact duplicate of one card to another - but this is kludgy, and only
> useful as a backup method.

Wouldn't that method make a nice alternative to the loaner card program?

Extract an image of a card with all the required networking files on it
(well, the loaner card, basically) and put it on the Net somewhere.
Anyone who has a pc laptop with a PC Card reader could either run a live
distribution of e.g. Ubuntu or install VMWare Player with the Ubuntu
image to get the files on their card.

Karel Jansens

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