Re: Weird Memory

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 08:14 PST
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Subject: Re: Weird Memory
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Here is what I believe the problem to be:

The SRAM card you bought was pre-formatted, probably with MS-DOS on some kind
of PC based PCMCIA card drive.  When you tried to format it on your Zoomer,
because of the pre-existing format, it saw the capacity of the card as less
that it's actual size.  I encountered this same probelm when I was working
with some older PCMCIA cards last month.  The solution was either to 1) take
out the battery and let it sit for 4-5 hours, or 2) to format using a special
utility included with the particular PCMCIA drive I had attached to my PC at
the time.  I would try the former solution first.  I also purchased a SRAM
card from Active Data last month, and Tim over there was generous enough to
format the card on a Zoomer and test it out before he sent it out to me.

David Black.