What's probably the case here is that you got yourself a 12-volt memory
card. eMates can only mount 12-volt cards as read only. They don't support
writing on 12-volt cards. To read and write to a memory card, you need to
use the 5-volt cards. The intel 6MB card you have is a 5-volt card which is
why you can read and write to it just fine.
Your best bet is probably to just auction off the cards you just bought and
use the money to buy some 5-volt memory cards for your eMate. Unfortunately
for us eMate users, people often don't know what kind of card (5 volt or 12
volt) they are selling other than the brand name and size, which makes
bidding for cards on eBay a bit of a challenge.
anyways, hope that helps.
brandon
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> From: Giuseppe Cardella <giuseppe.cardella@keycomm.it>
> Reply-To: newtontalk@planetnewton.com
> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 17:57:41 +0100
> To: newtontalk@planetnewton.com
> Subject: NTLK Flash card problems on eMate 300
>
> Recently I bought on eBay a 8 mb flash card and a Pretec 10 mb flash card.
> When I insert one of these cards in the PCMCIA slot of my eMate 300 I get
> message "Writing to this type of card is unsupported. This card will be
> mounted read-only".
> Even if I set their "write protect" switches on off position the cards are
> always locked and I'm not able to unlock them via software.
> Using an Intel 6 mb flash card on eMate it works fine in read/write mode.
> Someone there can help me?
> Thanks.
> Giuseppe
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