Jim Showalter wrote:
> Mike O'Connor wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> On that last point - I was in W2KPro the other day, attempting to do 
>> something I couldn't achieve in OS/2-eCS, removing the EA Data. SF file 
>> from a USB-MicroSDRAM-card [a SanDisk 512MB Transflash out of my 
>> Motorola RAZR V3x 3G cell phone], and M$ couldn't (or wouldn't) delete 
>> the file - every time I removed the H+S attributes from it, it reverted 
>> - the only solution was to fully-format the drive. Despite the fact that 
>> the VFAT drive had BPB values of xxx cylinders, 64 heads, 32 sectors per 
>> track - after formatting it M$ had made it yyy cylinders, 255 heads and 
>> 63 SPT. I wanted to take a snapshot of the details, so pressed 
>> Shift+PrintScreen key to put it in the Windoze clipboard, selected Paint 
>> from the accessories, and up came an error dialog saying "~not enough 
>> memory to open application". This is on this machine with
256MB of RAM, 
>> and the only application running, apart from the Windows Explorer was 
>> DFSee (W32) - of course previous to that Windoze said I had umpteen MB 
>> of free RAM!
>>
>> Having just purchased Netdrive and the VFAT plugin for it, I'm now able 
>> to bypass the problem of OS/2-eCS writing an EA Data. SF file to the 
>> VFAT drive, by closing the locking-switch on the
MicroSDRAM>>full-size 
>> SDRAM adapter (that came with the phone :-) ), and mounting it under 
>> Netdrive, which with the plugin from nickk.ru gives me access to all the 
>> [similarly named photos on the card], and the long-named [mostly hidden] 
>> directories on the card that included long-named files, in order to copy 
>> to JFS/HPFS, and manipulate with PMView!
>>
>> Neither the Windoze-centric "Motorola Phone Tools"
(which doesn't even 
>> include a FORMAT capability!) or the Phone's inbuilt Format command were 
>> able to format _any_ Transflash [~6mm * ~4mm overall!] card once that 
>> had an EA Data. SF file written to it!
>>
>> When if failed - every time - it stated that the card had e.g. ~498 
>> million bytes capacity, there were 100's of GB used, and freeMB was ZERO!
>> This on a card with nothing on it!
>>
>> Note I also have a Palm Tungsten E2 PDA, that uses regular full-size 
>> SDRAM cards as additional storage, and loading the Transflash in its 
>> adapter onto it, the Tungsten had no problem reading the card and 
>> formatting it, with an EA Data. SF file on there! But that's PALM 
>> software under the superior PalmOS, not Windoze-based software!! :-)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>>     
>
> Mike,
>
> My problem is a little more straightforward than that. I am trying to 
> build a 1GB GPS map file to be transferred to my Garmin iQue PDA (Palm 
> OS  based). Garmin support says that it will use 3GB of RAM to build it. 
> My win partition does not have enough space for the swap to grow to 3GB, 
> nor does the partition on which the 1GB file will be stored have room 
> for it. I don't have any space to expand either partition.
>
> Totally OT, but I love Palm! If the iPhone could do what my Garmin iQue 
> and my Palm LifeDrive can do, I'd switch, but it doesn't.
>   
Hi Jim,

Wow! When you consider the numbers involved going into a hand-held 
device - imagine what someone even 5 years would have gasped at!
What available space do you have on your system(s) - can you borrow an 
External USB2.0 (or Firewire - faster, as long as you have a Firewire 
port) to relocate several GB to [temporarily] - or are you just going to 
wait until you get the larger 2½" HDD? I don't believe Windoze will 
allow you to relocate your pagefile.sys to an external drive!

Ditto for me with PALM - sad that the management screwed up all along 
with the company - and not in very good shape presently! :'(
 From 1998 to last year I had a PALM III [OS upgraded to 3.30], and my 
only complaint with it was the number of alkaline batteries it ran 
through! The non-monochrome Tungsten on the other hand with its Li-Ion 
battery is an entirely different kettle-of-fish! Terrific!

Regards,
Mike


 
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