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Linux Issues / UPDATED: SOLUTION: HOW TO setup 4GB (Muvo) Microdrive
« on: August 11, 2004, 01:00:35 am »
The best way to check the drive compatability seem to be checking the last digits of the barcode on the drive.  

Theres a thread in the general forum that has a list of good/bad barcodes:

4 gig cf cards- mount problems

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General Discussion / 4gig cf cards- mount problems
« on: August 05, 2004, 12:47:12 pm »
The general discussion on the various photography boards and forums is that Creative/Hitachi are now shipping Muvos' with a modified microdrive that is NOT CF compatible.   It's not clear to me exactly what modifications have been made to the drive, and theres lots of speculation out there on the net as to what was done.

If you're using a Hitachi white label OEM 4Gb microdrive, the key point is to check the barcode on the microdrive.  To date, I've collected the following ino:

Last digits of barcode / CF compatable
3BA                         Yes
41C                         Yes
42B                          Yes
43B                         Yes
44C                         No                    
45C                         No

The changes made are clearly shutting down the extraction of microdrives from Muvos for digital camera use, since the cameras can't be upgraded easily.. but, with an open source Linux OS, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before we figure what the trick is.  At which point Zaurus owners can scoop up all the non-CF microdrives from eBay that nobody else wants  

I don't think this is a problem with specific Zaurus models, it's the model of microdrive itself. This link includes a statement from a Hitachi engineer confirming the OEM drives are not CF compatible.
Steve's Digicams

For anyone that has a CF compatible microdrive , the existing howto covers everything.  

Since I got my '44C' working under win2k pro with a CF reader, there is hope. I love to hear what anyone else is learning about the modified 'muvodrives' .

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General Discussion / 4gig cf cards- mount problems
« on: August 04, 2004, 03:24:18 pm »
I'm trying the same thing with a Hitachi 4Gb microdrive from a muvo.
It's a white label, 44c barcode model (latest and greatest from Hitachi :-)

c86o with Sharp 1.40-JP rom.

I get pretty much the same results:
1) device insertion/removal is recognised.
2) the system logs '<<<< Init_Module PASS >>>>'
3) fdisk won't open /dev/fda

I stuck the same drive into a Windows 2000 CF Reader, and it formatted as FAT32, so the drive is alive.

I just need to figure out how to get the Zaurus to load the right module........

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Cxx0 General discussions / Various 860 English/Japanese questions
« on: July 29, 2004, 01:09:11 am »
Heads up - there are problems with the script as pasted above !!!

There are typos that will cause the sed commands to fail, and wipe out the files instead of commenting out the Name[ja] entries.    (Looks like this is a side effect of how the script was copied/pasted.)  

For anyone that wants to fix it by hand, the [ brackets in the sed commands need to be prefixed with \, e.g.

    sed -e's/Name\[ja/#Name\[ja/' $filename > $filename$bakext

There's also copy of essentially the same script script  here:
WBCD's Zaurus Users Guide

Remember, always back up your machine before trying any of this.

Thanks for the script and all the help, I almost have an english C860.

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