[NTLK] Newton Compact Flash - Battery Life, Alternative storage methods?

[William Maloney]

Really? You can just get a standard PCMCIA adapter, shove an SD card in and
it works? No drivers? Any comments on battery life?


On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Vladislav Korotnev
<vladkorotnev at gmail.com>wrote:

> I used a 16MB Panasonic SD from my camera. Didn't notice any performance
> or battery issues. Tried only on the eMate tho. The adapter was a usual one
> you can get online almost everywhere.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Sent from my iSounds-enhanced iPhone
>
> On 06.07.2012, at 17:11, William Maloney <william.maloney.09 at cnu.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Anyone know if SD cards are compatible and if so, the battery life with
> > those?
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Gavin Watson <gavin83209 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I only used the 8 GB card for a few days before I traded, so I'm not
> >> sure about the battery life difference. As for adapters, I use a generic
> >> $9 PCMCIA CompactFlash adapter I bought at a local electronics store. As
> >> I understand it, these CF adapters passively route the pins from the
> >> PCMCIA interface to the ATA interface on the CF card, so they shouldn't
> >> use any extra power at all. That said, a CF card that runs only at 5V
> >> and not 3.3V might draw more power. I use rechargeable 2000 mAh AAs in a
> >> battery tray and usually get 3-4 weeks on a charge with just my CF card
> >> and occasionally a Wi-Fi card in use.
> >>
> >> I just use folders for sorting packages on Newton OS 2. One nice thing
> >> about NOS is that it doesn't care where you put packages. If you have a
> >> bunch of extensions, for example, you can separate them into several
> >> other folders and the system will find them just fine. If I have a
> >> package that I rarely use, I'll freeze it with the button provided by
> >> Power Prefs or a similar utility and file it in my 'Frozen' folder.
> >>
> >> On 07/04/2012 08:57 PM, William Maloney wrote:
> >>> Using something smaller was my thought too. I tried to persuade the guy
> >> at
> >>> the Best Buy that 4GB was far too much but again, twas all they had. It
> >>> worked but again, painfully slow. A bit much for this old Newt. Doing a
> >>> swap seems like a great idea. Someone will inevitably get a very good
> >> deal!
> >>> :)
> >>>
> >>> By the way, did you notice any marked improvement with battery life
> >> using a
> >>> smaller card? I tried fiddling with the power settings but couldn't
> >> manage
> >>> to get it down. This card ate through double AAs much faster than
> >>> anticipated. Does having a different CF PC-card adapter have anything
> to
> >> do
> >>> with it?
> >>>
> >>> A third question also -- when NewtonOS2 has quite a few packages on,
> are
> >>> there any programs or shells you use to help manage that much data?
> >> Having
> >>> to scroll through the extras box becomes a tad monotonous when dealing
> >> with
> >>> package after package.
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Gavin Watson <gavin83209 at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> A couple of years ago, I bought a 266x 8 GB CF card with the intention
> >>>> of using it in my Newton, but it was painfully slow. After a bit of
> >>>> research, I traded the 8 GB card for the 50x 512 MB card in a friend's
> >>>> camera. The 512 MB card is probably ten times faster and more stable
> in
> >>>> my MP2100 and I still don't even have 30 MB of data on the card. It
> >>>> still isn't quite as fast as linear flash, but it's at least
> comparable.
> >>>> If you can find one, try a CF card in the 128-512 MB range and see if
> it
> >>>> helps.
> >>>>
> >>>> For battery life, there is an option in ATA Support Preferences to put
> >>>> the card to sleep after a certain delay. Try 10 seconds or something
> >>>> similar if you aren't already. Unlike MicroDrives, CF cards don't have
> >>>> any moving parts, so they take almost no time to come out of sleep
> mode.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
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