From: Peter H. Coffin (hellsop_at_ninehells.com)
Date: Thu Jan 27 2005 - 11:25:29 PST
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 01:44:30PM -0500, Brad Schurman wrote:
> Hi.... another question here
>
> during the quest for extra space I bummed a 256m
> compactflash card from my folks still camera and
> erased it with disk utility.app in osx 10.2.7
>
> I tried OS standard, extended and unix file system but
> none of the formats were acceptable to the newton when
> using a pcmcia adapter on the compactflash card.
>
> Kept getting a 10582 error with the card ("there is a
> problem with this card" it also said) when inserting
> the unit, however the pcmcia on my dads laptop read
> all formats fine so it is something in the newton that
> wasnt wanting to read it to reformat it to newton.'
>
> Is there a newton 'force format" or 'force mount'
> package out there that you know of? Ive heard of ppl
> using newtons and microdrives, so I cant see how it
> wouldnt accept a pcmcia adapted CF card atleast to the
> mount stage to reformat it... thanks
You need the ATA support package from Paul Guyot.
http://www.kallisys.com/newton/ata/en
ATA cards aren't supported directly by the newton OS.
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