You\'d be surprised how many Gs a fall can generate for a small PDA (really). Anyway, just a couple of things about the MD as I\'ve been using one for years... Firstly, the 340mb MD is power hungry. IBM actually made the 1mb and 500mb versions (you cant find the 500mb ver anymore, they barely made many) less power hungry, as this was a big concern with the 340mb. However, given you have a 5600, this wont be too bad. When I used to use my 1gb md with my 5500, it would die pretty quickly. Secondly, I think the 340mb is a bit better than the 1gb when it comes to spinup/spindown. My 1gb does it CONSTANTLY, I guess to conserve power, but everytime it does, it pauses the whole pda while it spins up to access data. Not killer, but irritating. And the worst thing about it, is when I come out of suspend, it umounts, then remounts the drive. I dont know why it has to do this, but it\'s quite irritating and slows the machine to a crawl as it does. After say 5-7 seconds, everything stabilizes, and everything is okay, but it pretty much negates instant-on usage.
Now the above is with a 1gb MD, which may be more prone to \"power conservation\" (ie constant spindown/spinup cycles), so the 340mb may not be quite as finicky, but you might want to try it out if possible. However, I dont think you\'re going to get away from the umount/remount issue. In today\'s market, I\'d recommend a larger mem card unless you\'re aiming to buy in the 2gb range. Price wise, I just picked up a lexar 12x 512mb card for ~CAD$150 which is just over USD$100.
Yz
