Re: [NTLK] Flash card question

From: Jon Glass (jonglass_at_usa.net)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 11:12:06 PST


on 2/16/03 11:02 PM, Chris Ruprecht at chris_at_ruprecht.org wrote:

> PCs and Macs, as far as i can see, can't read Linear Flash cards at=20
> all, no matter how they're formatted.
> They can read ATA cards, when formatted like a hard drive (I almost=20
> said 'little', then i remembered that I thought a 60 MB drive was a lot=20=

?? I thought the PCMCIA format was specifically designed for flash memory,
as a simpler way to add memory to laptop computers? Modems and other things
only came later, I thought. Besides, I've heard of peopleformatting their
munged Newton cards in a PC or Mac, and that after doing that, they could be
reformatted in the Newton. Am I confused???

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