From: Peter Jaros (rjaros_at_shaysnet.com)
Date: Mon Sep 22 2003 - 13:19:32 PDT
On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 01:51 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
> on 20/09/03 23:01, Barry Rosenfeld at barryrosenfeld_at_comcast.net wrote:
>
>> I bought
>> an adapter from Sandisk which is supposed to make the Compact Flash
>> card
>> usable "in any PCMCIA slot." It says that I should be able to "plug
>> the
>> card into the adapter and it becomes a PCMCIA accessible plug and play
>> memory card."
>>
>> I tried using the adapter to put the Compact Flash card into my Newton
>> (MP2000 upgraded) and, though the whole thing seemed to fit nicely
>> into the
>> Newton, I got the following error message: "There is a problem with
>> this
>> card (-10582)."
>
> That's because your card is a "Compact Flash" while the Newton, by
> default,
> accepts only "Linear Flash RAM" cards.
>
> You can check Paul Guyot's web site to see if his ATA driver, which is
> what
> you would need, supports your specific card. His web site is
> <http://www.kallisys.com/>.
And once you try it, post if it works. I'd like to use a CF adapter
one day if so.
Peter
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