Re: Weird Memory

Anthony J Stieber <anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>

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From: Anthony J Stieber <anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
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Subject: Re: Weird Memory
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-> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 08:14 PST
-> From: davidblack@aol.com

-> 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

The PCMCIA standard specifies a standard CIS MS-DOS format for SRAM and
other memory cards.  Which device wasn't conforming to the standard?
The only two MS-DOS formats I know of are the pseudo-floppy format used
on the Fujitsu Poqet PC and secondarily supported by HP and some other
companies, and the CIS that everyone else uses.  There are also various
non-MS-DOS formats used by Apple, EO, and others that the card could
have been formated with.
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