[PLUG] Re: Free Tablet Computers To Good (or Bad) Homes
Andy Davidson
pheon at hevanet.com
Fri Jun 25 12:22:02 UTC 2004
I am about to give up on these tablets. They are being much more
difficult than I have time for currently.
I got a power supply and both of the units came up OK and the
batteries recharged fine. I got new AAAA batteries and both pens
work.
But I cannot get either unit to recognize a CF/ATA card as an ATA
disk. They sit at the "Autodetecting ATA disk" for a number of
seconds and then say no disk found.
And I have only been able to make a couple of CF cards into Linux
disks. My Mandrake laptop goes into a continuous error message and
won't let me access the card. I finally got one to work on my old,
old NEC laptop running Slackware. But two of the CF cards I have give
no errors when I partition them using cfdisk and then do 'mkef2fs
/dev/hdc1', but they still are seen as vfat disks in 'df -T' and ls
complains that there is no .. directory and lost+found shows as
lost+fou.nd. [No great loss, they still work fine in my camera.] The
other card formats OK, shows as a Linux disk, but is not recognized by
the tablet.
Any spare clues out there or should I just give up?
andy
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Andy Davidson pheon at hevanet.com
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