Re: NTLK Flash card problems on eMate 300

From: Ivan Shaw (ishaw@sympatico.ca)
Date: Tue Feb 22 2000 - 22:38:46 EST


At 05:57 PM 2/22/00 +0100, Giuseppe Cardella wrote:
>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".

You bought a 5V read/12V write card; these can be read on an eMate but
can't be written to. You require 5V read/5V write Flash RAM, like your 6 MB
card. You can try and get your money back but I think you're probably going
to have to sell the cards to a MessagePad owner.

--
Ivan T. Shaw, PhD
Are you a "Have"?

http://www3.sympatico.ca/ishaw http://www.ivanshaw.com

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