From: Matthew Hudson (hexsane_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 11 2005 - 15:57:38 PDT
I've been working on something to read these cards in a Linux machine.
Unfortunately it's still in the infant stages and I have other things
I must work on also. If you have access to a Linux machine running
Kernel 2.4.28 and can enable MTD on it you can do a dd of the card to
save the information from it. If you can do this send me the image of
the card and I may be able to determine why it stopped working (no
promises). Someone with more low level experience on the Newton (or me
in time) may be able to create a utility that can read/repair these
defective cards on a Newton (or at least recover some data before you
have to erase it).
-Matt
> I've had two linear flash cards melt down in the last 6 months (one
> Centenial, one Pretec), each had been in use for several years.
> - The errors upon startup vary - -10600, 8, 0, 12, 119537824 followed
> by the 'to use this card you must erase it' message. Is there any way
> to access the information, or is it shot for good?
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