Re: Memory- Card / Dos for Sharp

[Stewart Midwinter <midtoad@xxxxxxxx>]

Look for a SanDisk (used to be SunDisk) SDP5-10 or SDP5-20, which are 10 MB or
20 MB respectively. Other brands won't work, and only the 5v SanDisk ones will
work.  And only then with a driver file DIPSSDP.SYS which you can get in
sundrv.zip from the PC-3k website, or from me.

As for the SCSI card, someone has written a driver for a SCSI ZIP drive, but it
is expensive. Don't know if it would work with the Syquest.  As you know, DOS
3.3 is limited to partition sizes of 32 MB so in either case you'd have to chop
up your drive into partitions.

I tried to boot my PC3k off DOS 5, but the problem is that the unit has DOS 3.3
in ROM and it can't be replaced. If you really need to use the Syquest, try
another small laptop with a later DOS in it, like the Fujitsu Poqet Plus, which
you can get for $109-129 US at California Digital, at:
http://www.cadigital.com/palmtop.htm

Hinnerk FD wrote:

> hi,
> does anybody know, which memory- cards (available today, could be used too)
> have 10+ MB? Is anyone willing to sell it to me?
>
> Another Question: I have a Trantor T338 Parallel-SCSI Adaptor and a 88MB
> Syquest; i Can't format the medias with the Sharp, and when i format them
> with another PC, it is formatted with a DOS4- compatible filesystem; so my
> question is, wether I can run the Sharp with Dos4 or above (but at the
> moment i have only a 512KB Memory- Card...)? And how can i get Dos4?

cheers
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