Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:04:43 -0500
From: Jim Witte <jswitte_at_bloomington.in.us>
> I just got my smart media adapter in the mail and tried out the ATA
>Driver. I love it! Can't wait for a final over 4 MB version (and the
>APIs).
I can't wait either, but so do my masters' thesis directors :p
> I did few problems I noticed, which may be known bugs. One, if the
>card is for forcible ejected the machine restarts, instead of putting up
>the "grip of death" box like a linear card.
This is a design philosophy rather than a bug. It will be a lot of
work to implement something similar to the grip of death.
>Second, I managed to get
>DragonHack2 on the SM store somehow, and it complained it didn't want to
>work from their (I assume it's one of those that needs to be on
>internal). When I try to move it back to internal, it gives me a -10606
>(Object not found) error. Even if I freeze it first (which works), it
>still won't move. I could delete it though..
The -10606 meant that the data was corrupted.
This explains all further problems.
It is probably one of the known bugs (I fixed 3 or 4 data corruption
bugs since latest beta).
> Third, I somehow got UnlimitedFolders on the store (which I thought I
>had moved back to Internal, but apparently not). When I tried to
>unmount the card, it said the system needed to be restarted to remove
>UFolder, but I could physically eject the card, so I did, and the Newton
>didn't restart. So it hit the reset switch, then reinserted the card.
>Now it gives me a -10059 error, and I can't even erase the card.
I wonder if this still persists and/or has a link with the
incompatibility problem.
>I guess I'll take it to a PCMCIA equipped Mac and wipe it their (I think
>it was initialized as a DOS partition when I got it - I think the card
>slip said C:/ when I first inserted it - Will the driver currently
>recognize the names of FAT partitions, even if it can't write/read to
>them?)
C: is in fact the icon and the software doesn't read the name of FAT
partitions yet.
>Great Work, Paul, (You should be careful, we might start calling you
>"Paul the Great..")
Heh, thanks.
Paul
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