Re[2]: Win98SE destroys file system on SRAM card

[Bernd Birkenbach <Z80@xxxxxxxxx>]

leo.g.arendsen@xxxxxxxxxxx schrieb am Mittwoch, 3. April 2002 um 09:27:50
> Hi Bernd

> I have no experience in writing directly with my desktop PC to a PCMCIA card.
> But my idea is that your WIN98SE is maybe mixing the FAT32 system with FAT16
> on the card.
> You could try and boot your desktop-PC from a old dos-flop and write from there
> to the PCMCIA-card, maybe you run into less trouble then.
> Hope this solves anything
> regards

> L.G.C.M. Arendsen (Leo)
> E-mail: Leo.G.Arendsen@xxxxxxxxxxx

I bought the PCMCIA device (SCM Swapbox ISA Adapter) from eBay without
any DOS drivers. Anybody out there who can send me them?

Using a disk editor shows that Win98SE doesn't write any FAT32 data on
the SRAM card. Maybe at one of my test I used a long filename
(3000util.zip with lower case letters) so I got an error. The FAT12
tables are ok, but the boot sector was corrupted.

The OEM ID is changed from "MSDOS3.3" to "*####IHC" (####
are random characters) if I insert the card in my desktop PC. This
changed occurs even if I didn't copy any file on the SRAM card. Using
a disk editor on PC-3K to reverse the change I have no trouble to
access the files and chkdsk doesn't show any error.

I'm using the TrueFFS drivers located on the Win98SE CD in directory
\drivers\storage\ftl.

Bernd