Intermec Janus 2010 User Manual page 302

JANUS 2010 Hand-Held Computer User's Manual
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Using PC Cards (continued)
Problem
You hear the reader sound a single
low tone beep when you insert a PC
card in the PC card drive.
You delete files from a 512K flash
card and it does not appear that there
is any additional space available on
the card.
You try to format a flash PC card
with the MCFORMAT utility and you
see the message, "You must erase X:
before creating a new partition."
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Solution
The reader cannot read the card in the PC card drive. You need to
format the card. For help, see "Configuring, Formatting, and Using
PC Cards" in Chapter 4.
If you followed all the instructions to format a flash PC card and the
reader still does not recognize the card, you may need to install two
other flash card drivers. You need to install the MTAA.EXE and
MTAB.EXE drivers to use AMD Type A or B flash cards.
Copy the two drivers from the Application companion disk 3 to
drive C on the reader (using Auto-Loader or MkImage/PutImage).
Edit the CONFIG.SYS file and add these lines after the line that
installs the MTI2P.EXE driver:
device=c:\mtaa.exe
device=c:\mtab.exe
After you place the revised CONFIG.SYS file on the reader's
drive C, boot the reader and try to format the flash card again.
If you are using a 512K flash card with an MS-Flash file format, the
card is formatted as a WORM (Write Once Read Many) drive. A
512K flash card does not have room for more than one separately
erasable block of memory. You can delete individual files using the
DOS delete command, but the memory the files were using is not
available to be used again. To reclaim the memory from deleted
files, you need to erase the entire card and then reformat the card.
Note: Intermec recommends using flash cards that store 1MB or more of
data.
If a flash card has been formatted before, you must erase the card
before you can format it. Use the MCFORMAT utility and select
option
If you erase the flash card and still see this message when you try to
format the card or the card will not format, check CONFIG.SYS.
Make sure the flash card drivers are installed. Once the flash card
drivers are active in CONFIG.SYS, try erasing the flash card. Then
format the card.
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from the MCFORMAT main menu to erase a flash card.