[NTLK] Flash Storage card issues

[Craig Bradley]

Good tip. I just put them all in a MP2000 and most of them work. Some were obviously from MP1xx devices as I was asked to convert or mount as read only.

//Craig



> On 12 Mar 2025, at 12:28 pm, Vladislav Korotnev <vladkorotnev at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> IIRC eMates do not support cards over a certain capacity, and those
> requiring a certain higher voltage to write (I don't remember the specific
> values).
> 
> I've had the same thing happen with the 20MB cards I got with my MP2100
> back in the day. This is just a quirk of the eMate and no solution was
> devised IIRC.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM Craig Bradley via NewtonTalk <
> newtontalk at newtontalk.net> wrote:
> 
>> I decided to test the flash storage cards I have received with various
>> secondhand Newton’s over the years. Most of them keeping giving me the
>> error below yet some of them clearly have backups and apps on them. Do I
>> need to install a driver or something? I am trying to open them on an eMate.
>> 
>> Error = “Writing to this type of cards unsupported. This card can only be
>> mounted read-only”
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