Care to explain me what are theses partitions / units in RescoExplorer?

[Dan_Aykroyd]

Hi...

In rescoexplorer, with my LD, a i get some partitions i don't know EXACTLY what they represent. I'll write what I think they are and you tell me if I'm correct... :)

1) ROM - This is where the 'rar' OS resides, where will be copied to RAM on a HardReset. Of course nothing can be deleted. What I'm not sure... do programs like tasks, notepad, etc. run from here or from the RAM partition? I guess from RAM, but read in many posts that you say "it's in the ROM"... like implying that they'd run from there, even if they are copied in the RAM...

2) RAM - AS above, this is where the apps are copied after a hard reset, where you install external apps, where some files are created by apps (Such as Verichat chat logs), where saved and unsaved settings reside...

3) BuiltIn A: - this is what made me post this thread... what the heck is it? I get two folders, BLAZER_PM (or something, don't have the palm here) and PALM.... in the blazer folder are files that seem like cache of webpages, and a CACHE.fat file also is there... The PALM folder i think was empty

4) LifeDrive - The HD

4) SD - The SD


Thats all... please, let me know... :) Thanks.

[_Em]

BuiltIn A is a hidden virtual SD card, basicly. It shares the same physical location as your "RAM" (which is a partition on your HD IIRC), but allows you to store files not wrapped in a Palm database. The folder is Blazer_DM I think, and on non-lifedrive NVFS devices, this is where Blazer downloads files to if you don't have an SD card installed. The other folder actually contains all the files that have a "simpler" reference in the RAM partition -- you see the actual files in there instead of their database names.

As for ROM, this is where the basic OS is stored, plus a few apps. The data gets loaded directly from here, and it cannot be modified. Any files that need to be modified get copied to RAM and are used from there. If there is an identical file in ROM and RAM (same creator/type, etc.), the one in RAM will be used.