Re: PC 3100 and CompactFlash, it works!

["John Hoh" <johnhoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Glad to see you are still keeping this thread alive.  I would appreciate
your keeping me on any new listserv for PC3K support and sharing of
technical tips.
Viel Danks!
John Hoh

----- Original Message -----
From: Sven Utcke <utcke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Sven Utcke <utcke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 1:09 AM
Subject: PC 3100 and CompactFlash, it works!


| Hi,
|
| I'm sending you this because we have, at some time, talked about the
| Sharp PC 3000 or Sharp PC 3100.  I originally send this to
| sharp-pc3k@xxxxxxxxx, but the list seems to be defunct, see below...
|
| --- original mail ---
| I just wanted to let you know that today I purchased a 16MB Compact
| Flash Memory Card and an adapter to PCMCIA for my pc3100, and it
| works!  I now have a B: drive with a whooping 15974400 Byte of free
| space --- 15600KB of free space.
|
| Here are the details:
|
| 1) I installed the drivers out of sundrv.zip (on the pc3k ftp-site,
|    ftp://hawk.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/pub/sharp-pc3k/ I think).  Don't know
|    whether this is actually necessary, but it is what I did.
| 2) I got myself a CompactFlash to PCMCIA adapter.  Mine is a noname
|    one, made in Taiwan, no useful markings.  I bought mine at Conrad,
|    if you happen to be German.  It is a tight fit, and can only be
|    removed with the aid of a pair of pliers, but it does fit.
| 3) I inserted the CF-card into the adapter.
| 4) I rebooted.  With the first card (8MB) the computer would report an
|    invalid card in drive B while booting.  This did not happen with
|    the 16MB card.  However, both cards could be formated and used just
|    fine (and the computer would not report an invalid card once I
|    formated it).
| 5) I ran "sdisk b:"
| 6) I ran "sformat b:"
| 7) Success!
|
| The CF-card is a SanDisk CompactFlash Memory Card.  The blisters says
| something about SDCFB-16-485, and a second number, 80-56-00071-16.  No
| further information as to voltage or linear/ata.  My Linux machine
| identifies this as:
|
| Mar 27 19:21:54 ramallo kernel: hdc: SanDisk SDCFB-16, 15MB w/1kB Cache,
CHS=490/2/32
| Mar 27 19:21:54 ramallo kernel: ide_cs: hdc: Vcc = 5.0, Vpp = 0.0
|
| Hope this helps to keep your pc3k alive
|
| Sven
|
| PS: I also tried SmartMedia, but was told by sdisk and sformat to only
|     use sundisk-products.  Nice touch :-)
| --- original mail ---
|
| PPS: It seems as if the pc3k mailing list died:
|
| <sharp-pc3k@xxxxxxxxx>:
| 144.82.100.22 does not like recipient.
| Remote host said: 550  Unknown local user 'sharp-pc3k'
| Giving up on 144.82.100.22.
|
| I would, however, be willing to carry this list on our server (or,
| rather, a handmade-version.  But still).  If you would like to be on
| that list, simply tell me so
|
| Sven
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