[NTLK] Re: Flash card problem

From: Eric L. Strobel (fyzycyst_at_home.com)
Date: Fri Jun 15 2001 - 07:26:11 PDT


on 6/15/01 2:54 AM, countless monkeys randomly typing on behalf of Glenn Roe
at myhome_at_cwnet.com miraculously produced:

>
> It's great to have the list back, although I'm amazed at all the
> traffic. Anyway I had a problem the other day that I wanted to see if
> anyone else has had. The memory card in my upgraded eMate (32mb flash)
> was suddenly not recognized. It acted like it wasn't there. Since I
> store everything on the card that doesn't have to be stored internally,
> my eMate was useless. I drove home dreading having to deal with
> recreating what I had added since my last backup, luckily only a week
> before. We use MPs and eMates in my business as portable offices, with
> almost everything business wise on the machines. I have a spare MP2100
> at home, so when I got there I removed the card and inserted it into the
> MP. It was immediately recognized and booted up fine on the MP. I went
> ahead and updated the backup for the card from the MP, and then removed
> the card and put it back in my eMate. It booted back up fine and has
> worked ever since. At the time of the original mishap the eMate was
> almost fully charged and had not been acting up at all. I was trying to
> print a TimeOfTheMonth calendar on my HP340 IrDA printer when it failed.
> Is this a sign that the card is failing? Or have others had similar
> glitches that corrected themselves? TIA for any feedback.
>
> Glenn Roe
> Caregiver to 5 MPs and 4 eMates ....
>

I don't know how the card locks into the eMate, but on my MP130 I had a
devil of a time with my card once. Until I realized that the little locking
switch had come partly out of the locked position during transit from work
to home...

- Eric.

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