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.


 
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