How do I Use this Compact Flash driver?

[Unregistered]

For me, the prospect of spending $27 and being able to put some old CF cards from my digital camera to good use is quite appealing.

I alos, sprung for the Wi-Fi card, but that was a joke. 6MB of RAM indeed. Who can afford that? The card sits unused (and in pristine condition) in a drawer. It's not ever likely to see the light of day!

OK, so I hotsynced the CF utility and downloaded some MP3 files from my PC. I put them in the root directory on the CF card. FileZ calls the card an 'External Card' (the Memory Stick is called 'MS' as usual). It saw that I had about 90MB of data, but couldn't see any of the individual files.

I did the masquerade thingy but AudioPlayer couldn't see any tunes. It did recognize that some data was there (it said the card had 7MB free of the 96 available.

I went back to the PC and moved the tunes to a Palm\Program\MSAUDIO directory (similar to how the tunes are stored on the MS, but it made no difference.

To sum it up, the CF utility hasn't made anything crash. Some of the Apps recognize it, but as yet, I haven't been able to get any useful function.

Any pointers would be appreciated....

Alf Bristow
TORONTO

[n2ifp]

It's /Palm/Programs/MSAudio, you typed program instead of programs in your post.

Yes it should work :).

[caipro]

i love this idea.... and cf cards seem to be much cheaper.. at present i only have MS as all my stuff is sony.
can anyone tell me if i can use the cf as well as my BT MS so i can receive then save to cf?

[imadrin]

as for your wl100 problem, my address is.... :D

actually, netfront only uses 2 (maybe a little more) mb after it's installed. you just need 6 to install it. n2ifp can tell you more... we all know he loves netfront soooo much ;)

if you can't stand the loss of any space, after installing it, use powerrun to put it on the ms (or cf card, i don't know whether the latest version supports that). you won't actually lose any internal memory in the long term.

[cepler]

Netfront will run thru PowerRun, I do that. Also, you can turn off the caching and that'll save some memory too. NOTE: If you turn on caching and don't have much space free and then try to launch NetFront it may fail to launch.

[Slugman]

Originally posted by caipro
i love this idea.... and cf cards seem to be much cheaper.. at present i only have MS as all my stuff is sony.
can anyone tell me if i can use the cf as well as my BT MS so i can receive then save to cf?

Caipro, I've not had any problems using a CF card alongside the BT MS. I've not done much with it, but I can browse the CF card with Clie Files, and have a network connection over BT at the same time. If you've got Hotsync over BT set up, you should be able to sync straight to CF card over BT, which is pretty cool (but slow if you're transferring large files!).

The only problem is of course that when using MS masquerading, the MS slot is disabled. I noticed too that if you have the BT MS in when you enable MS masquerading, the Clie apps see the CF card as an I/O card instead of a data card! I guess the masquerading feature emulates whatever mode the MS slot is currently in when it's enabled...

[caipro]

thanks for that.. im off to order my first CF card :) amazon are doing a nice deal on a 256meg card.. (£50 for a viking)