From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com)
Date: Fri Jun 15 2001 - 06:50:05 PDT
on 15/06/01 02:54, Glenn Roe at myhome_at_cwnet.com wrote:
> It's great to have the list back, although I'm amazed at all the
> traffic. Anyway I had a problem the other day that I wanted to see if
> anyone else has had. The memory card in my upgraded eMate (32mb flash)
> was suddenly not recognized. It acted like it wasn't there. Since I
> store everything on the card that doesn't have to be stored internally,
> my eMate was useless. I drove home dreading having to deal with
> recreating what I had added since my last backup, luckily only a week
> before. We use MPs and eMates in my business as portable offices, with
> almost everything business wise on the machines. I have a spare MP2100
> at home, so when I got there I removed the card and inserted it into the
> MP. It was immediately recognized and booted up fine on the MP. I went
> ahead and updated the backup for the card from the MP, and then removed
> the card and put it back in my eMate. It booted back up fine and has
> worked ever since. At the time of the original mishap the eMate was
> almost fully charged and had not been acting up at all. I was trying to
> print a TimeOfTheMonth calendar on my HP340 IrDA printer when it failed.
> Is this a sign that the card is failing? Or have others had similar
> glitches that corrected themselves? TIA for any feedback.
That is strange, as it is the first time I hear something like that in many
years. I don't think the card is starting to fail. If there is any bad
sector, the Newton won't be able to use the card at all. We all heard that a
flash RAM card has a number of write cycles. But it wouldn't have worked in
your 2100 if it was that problem, I think...
-Laurent.
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