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Accessories / Bad 2.2 GB CF Card...

« on: July 28, 2004, 02:31:28 pm »

Unfortunately... I did try that out.. I end up with the same problems when I start at cylinder 2 as 1.

It just does this weird thing where... at first it will work great...
then after a few minutes go by of not using it (but zaurus still on).. and then using it again.. it will freeze up

then if i turn off the zaurus and turn it back on.. i have random results...
it doesn't matter if i do a software eject or not before turning it off...

If I physically take it out and put it back in then it works just fine.. until its been idle for a few minutes and then try using it again... then its back to freezing...

oy vay Magicstor...

(i can watch movies on it just fine... just after its been idle.. it'll freeze the next time I try to use it)

 

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Accessories / Bad 2.2 GB CF Card...

« on: July 23, 2004, 02:30:52 pm »

nah.. not using the swap file on it..

it does this annoying sleep thing.. or whatever.. and then hangs when u try to access it when its apparently trying to wake up

either that.. or i have a retarded microdrive

 

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Accessories / Bad 2.2 GB CF Card...

« on: July 23, 2004, 12:27:42 pm »

This thing crasshes/hangs ... ALL THE TIME

I fdisk't it.. partitioned and formatted the whole thing as FAT32 and then mkfs.vfat -F 32 -f 2 /dev/hda1

I STILL have the same problems.

When its working.. it works great during continued use...

When I haven't used it for say.. a few minutes.. or if the zaurus has been off and i turn it on.. its like a 50/50 chance that I can use it.

When the drive is pretty much empty it has few problems...
When the drive has about 300MB of stuff...this problem is VERY recreatable.


Is this a sleep feature or something on the Magicstor microdrive? and is there ANY way that it can be disabled? I don't care about power usage reduction.. I just want the thing to work!

"arrrrrrrr its driving me nuts!"

 

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6000 - Tosa / Anyone have experience using 4GB CF card on SL-6000?

« on: July 21, 2004, 01:32:50 pm »

ok.. well I had a issue related to using swap on the microdrive in combination with suspending and waking up...

oh well...

Here's the link to the forum topic for more details:

Topic: Bad 2.2 GB CF Card...

 

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Accessories / Bad 2.2 GB CF Card...

« on: July 21, 2004, 11:18:18 am »

Something I thought was a wee bit interesting.. and a wee bit annoying with the Magicstor 2.2G...

Don't put/enable a swap file on the magicstor drive and then suspend the zaurus.
If you turn it back on and then browse through a filemanager to the CF mount point the device will hang and cause lots of annoying problems until you reboot.

I'm assuming this happens because the zaurus wakes up faster than the Magicstor drive does....  and trying to access the device when the zaurus thinks its ready and when it really is ready can cause some problems.

I allot a little bit of time now after I turn my zaurus back on before I use my microdrive.

Anyone else have any problems like this? Or am I the only one?

(formatted FAT 32)

 

anyway.. same issue on the 6000 as amdonati had on the 5500
( "i never learned to read" )

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Accessories / How fast is your CF/SD card?

« on: July 19, 2004, 07:14:12 pm »

So far:

Sandisk SD 1 GB mounted (rw) and formatted fat32:

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$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=zeros bs=1024 count=230400; time sync
230400+0 records in
230400+0 records out

real    2m38.838s
user    0m0.190s
sys     0m43.320s

real    0m1.291s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m1.210s
Magicstor 2.2 GB mounted (rw,noatime) and formatted fat32:

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$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=zeros bs=1024 count=230400; time sync
230400+0 records in
230400+0 records out

real    1m43.600s
user    0m0.550s
sys     0m18.010s

real    0m0.469s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.180s
gotta get back to work... maybe I'll run bonnie later  

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6000 - Tosa / Anyone have experience using 4GB CF card on SL-6000?

« on: July 19, 2004, 06:34:03 pm »

I just got my 2.2 GB Magicstor Microdrive today.

Put a 128mb movie on it... plays just fine.

The drive is doing fine so far...  

 

duh..  i should have read a little bit more...

I don't see why a solid state high capacity CF card wouldn't work on the 6000.
It supports CF Type II and large storage obvioiusly works.

But, I don't own a solid state CF card cuz they cost almost twice as much.... so I can't give a definitive "yes".

I haven't noticed much drain on my batteries so far from my microdrive... I'll keep you updated tho.  ( the magicstore supposedly "sleeps" when its not in use to reduce power consumption )

If the Magicstor manages power consumption well,  a 4.4 GB Magicstor could still be feasable and much cheaper....

Also, in respect to your question about fat32: I have a fat32 formatted SD memory card and its working fine and so is my fat32 microdrive.

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Central Texas / Dallas Users?

« on: July 19, 2004, 04:51:16 pm »

So, is there an active Central Texas ZUG?

If there is:

Are any of those members from Dallas?

 

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General Discussion / zaurus as a gentoo icon

« on: July 01, 2004, 06:40:08 pm »

http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/icons.xml