Re: [NTLK] PMCIA Flash Memory Card Drivers

It's not a stupid question. It would make a large amount of sense to
use these cards in this fashion.

Your PC can read and write data to the card just fine - what it can't
understand is the way the card is _formatted_, nor how a newton
stores data on the card. In theory, someone could write software to
allow a pc to understand these cards, but such doesn't exist.

There are a couple of tools in linux that people have used to make an
exact duplicate of one card to another - but this is kludgy, and only
useful as a backup method.

J. Tyler Nichols

On Aug 7, 2006, at 1:44 PM, dean smoth wrote:

> Hello all. Newt noob here,( it just arrived in the
> mail today)! Trying to work my way around the
> Bootstrap issue. My MP2100 came with a flash memory
> card, 4MB. When I put it in the PMCIA slot on my Dell,
> the comp can see it, but can't communicate because it
> doesn't have the right drivers. ( I tried the ones
> preinstalled in WinXp, none worked)Does anyone know if
> there any drivers for Newton Memory cards so that
> windows can communicate? It seems like this would be a
> good way to get a comm package onto the Newt. The
> memory card is labelled "Newton 4MB Flash Storage
> Card".
> I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, like I said,
> I'm a noob.

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