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Sandisk Flash Disk Compatibility - any PC3K work arounds?



Do you recall whether anyone has been able to get the newer Sandisk SDP3xx-xx series cards to be readable on a PC3K?  I am hoping that having even 30 to 50 megs would increase possibilities (Windows 3.1 without so much amputation).  I know about the earlier Sundisk lower capacity cards.  I read that the drivers might be patched to recognize "Sandisk" rather than Sundisk but have never seen specifics on the process.  Could either of you steer me in the right direction or should I actually be dissuaded from trying?  My impression is that compact flash is overwhelming the market due to its smaller form factor but that is resulting in some price improvement for the older PCMCIA cards.
 
Thanks and best regards,
John

 
----- Original Message -----
From: Sven Utcke <utcke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Sharp PC 3000/3100 mailing list <sharp-pc3k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 2:56 AM
Subject: HP (Medion) CF-card not working

| Hi,
|
| a few weeks ago I successfully installed a 16MB CF-card in my PC 3100.
|
| http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~utcke/Laptop/sharp-pc3100.html
|
| Well, today Aldi (a German discounter) started selling 32MB CF-cards
| at _very_ competitive prices, so naturally I went there to try one.
| The card is sold under the label Medion, but was supposedly
| manufactured by HP.  But, alas, no success.  Both sdisk and sformat
| admonish me to only use Sundisk products, then quit. 
|
| As I don't think there's much of a difference between CF-cards by
| Sundisk and that by HP, I would think that it must be possible to hack
| the corresponding drivers to accept all brands --- if there's someone
| on the list who knows enough about assemblers and disassemblers...
|
| So much for the bad news...
|
| On a slightly related note:  sundrv.zip refers to drivers for the
| PC3k, the HP95LX and the Olivetti Quaderno.  Drivers for the first two
| are included (DIPSSDP.SYS and HP95SDP.SYS), but the last one
| (OLIVDSP.SYS) is missing.  Has anybody ever seen this driver and could
| mail me a copy?
|
| On a completely unrelated topic: has anybody managed to get any kind
| of "network" connection with the PC3k better than 9600 over
| null-modem?
|
| Greetings
|
| Sven
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