1src Forums - PowerDrive released

03-28-2008, 02:35 PM	#46
dmitrygr Software engineer/hacker Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Silicon Valley, CA Posts: 5,061	if it does not boot with your original disk, press and hold the [center] button while booting release when disk access light flashes it will boot. __________________ Annoying me is NOT an approved way of encouraging me to produce software My software:PowerSDHC, PowerDrive, nuRom, UDMH, warpSpeed, PowerDiGi, brightnessFix, etc... Get it all here:http://www.PalmPowerups.com

03-28-2008, 02:49 PM	#47
JavaJiveJump Behold the Elixir of Life Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 931	Is that one of your built-in fail-safes? good to know, thank you. I want to get a CF this weekend, but I want this to go as smoothly as possible.

03-28-2008, 02:55 PM	#48
vbph2k Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 4	Hi Dmitrygr, I am waiting for the registration code for powerdrive. Paid by paypal under the name of vbph2k. Could you please send it to me. Hotsync name - vbph2k thank you. vbph2k

03-28-2008, 04:13 PM	#49
Mendodave Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 46	PowerDrive Hi I have it running well with 512 RAM on a Sandisk 4gb. there were issues with my Transcend 16gb CF card, it says it can't find boot disk, as well as the key code hiccups. I am confident that Dimitry will find and fix the issues. This is all pretty normal for a first release of this kind of hardware level programming. 512 RAM is sweet! David

03-28-2008, 04:17 PM	#50
joepagIII Dont Panic Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: plymouth nc usa Posts: 674	i kinda figured there'd be issues...as long as people back up there data prior to performing this procedure they should be good...all in all im pleased with 512 on a 4 gig...well worth the money plus its not impossible to get a hold of the developer __________________ reading makes a person see different answers to any given situation-jfpiii

03-28-2008, 04:36 PM

#51

dmitrygr

Software engineer/hacker

Join Date: Jan 2004

Location: Silicon Valley, CA

Posts: 5,061 dmitrygr will become famous soon enough

Quote:

Originally Posted by JavaJiveJump

Is that one of your built-in fail-safes?

good to know, thank you.

yes, it is

__________________
Annoying me is NOT an approved way of encouraging me to produce software

My software:PowerSDHC, PowerDrive, nuRom, UDMH, warpSpeed, PowerDiGi, brightnessFix, etc...
Get it all here:http://www.PalmPowerups.com

03-28-2008, 04:37 PM	#52
dmitrygr Software engineer/hacker Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Silicon Valley, CA Posts: 5,061	transcend cards seem very bad. anyone want to trade their transcend for my adata 16gb so i can have one to test with? __________________ Annoying me is NOT an approved way of encouraging me to produce software My software:PowerSDHC, PowerDrive, nuRom, UDMH, warpSpeed, PowerDiGi, brightnessFix, etc... Get it all here:http://www.PalmPowerups.com

03-28-2008, 04:48 PM

#53

Mendodave

Registered User

Join Date: Aug 2006

Posts: 46

Done!

Quote:

Originally Posted by dmitrygr

transcend cards seem very bad. anyone want to trade their transcend for my adata 16gb so i can have one to test with?

no problem, Dimitry.

PM me an address to mail it to, or can I attach it to an email?

David

03-28-2008, 05:09 PM

#54

fabifott

Registered User

Join Date: Mar 2008

Location: Germany

Posts: 16

Quote:

Originally Posted by dmitrygr

if it does not boot with your original disk, press and hold the [center] button while booting
release when disk access light flashes
it will boot.

And how can you get the hard reset working?

Just did the repartitioning again with a custom boot image and 512 MB. At first it was in a reset loop but after doing a quick hard reset, it works

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My boot image:
http://www.fabi-s.de/palm/boot.bmp
http://www.fabi-s.de/palm/boot.ini
If anyone likes it, feel free to use it.

Very nice App, looking forward to see your SDHC driver

An idea for later releases: the app could leave the OS.zip on the SD card instead of deleting it after restoring, so further repartitionings will be much faster (if thats possible).

03-28-2008, 05:11 PM	#55
dmitrygr Software engineer/hacker Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Silicon Valley, CA Posts: 5,061	do you mind if i post your boot image on my site? __________________ Annoying me is NOT an approved way of encouraging me to produce software My software:PowerSDHC, PowerDrive, nuRom, UDMH, warpSpeed, PowerDiGi, brightnessFix, etc... Get it all here:http://www.PalmPowerups.com

03-28-2008, 05:28 PM	#56
vibo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Germany Posts: 78	Probably it is a good idea to make some statistics on failures and successes. This would help others to find the best way around it. Can you please post which card you used, what you did exactly and how many MBs of RAM you have now or tried to create if it failed. Also, please tell us about any improvements you see if it worked for you (i.e bigger DBcache, faster reboot etc.). Thanks.

03-28-2008, 05:40 PM	#57
dmitrygr Software engineer/hacker Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Silicon Valley, CA Posts: 5,061	wait till i release some fixes first __________________ Annoying me is NOT an approved way of encouraging me to produce software My software:PowerSDHC, PowerDrive, nuRom, UDMH, warpSpeed, PowerDiGi, brightnessFix, etc... Get it all here:http://www.PalmPowerups.com

03-28-2008, 06:03 PM	#58
c33m0n3y Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 57	Here's a question: I have a LD with a dead MD. Would I be able to "revive" the dead LD if I just plug in the MD from my "live" LD to the dead LD after I setup my live LD with the CF card using this app? (assuming the only thing wrong with the dead LD is the MD). This will save me some $$, as I was going to give the erstwhile dead LD to my son to play LJP on. Also, after one reformats the CF card, will a Hotsync with "Backup from System" restore all my programs to the CF card? Thanks,

03-28-2008, 06:04 PM	#59
dmitrygr Software engineer/hacker Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Silicon Valley, CA Posts: 5,061	yes, that will work __________________ Annoying me is NOT an approved way of encouraging me to produce software My software:PowerSDHC, PowerDrive, nuRom, UDMH, warpSpeed, PowerDiGi, brightnessFix, etc... Get it all here:http://www.PalmPowerups.com

03-28-2008, 06:13 PM	#60
c33m0n3y Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 57	Thanks, I'm getting the CF card today. I'll be getting the app shortly. Do you mind if I PM you on your site w/ my contact info after I do the paypal thing? Last time the automatic registration number issue thingie didn't work on your website for me. Thanks.