Pcmcia Cards; Formatting Pcmcia Cards - Symbol PDT 7500 Series Product Reference Manual

PCMCIA Cards

PCMCIA cards supplement the terminal's on-board flash or RAM, and provide additional
I/O devices. There are many options regarding the type of card and format to use. For a
discussion of PCMCIA card options, refer to Chapter 5, Terminal Configuration Issues.
Note: Symbol's Scan Board provides a list of tested and approved PCMCIA
cards for use with the PDT 7500.

Formatting PCMCIA Cards

SRAM Cards
SRAM cards can be FAT-file formatted on the PDT 7500 terminal using the DOS format
command.
Non-ATA Flash
Non-ATA flash cards are inexpensive, fast, nonvolatile, read only, and block erasable. We
currently have no means of formatting these cards for use on the PDT 7500. FAT-file
formatting using DOS format and CardSoft does not work on Non-ATA flashcards because
DOS assumes that the card is a read/writable floppy, and these cards are not randomly
writable. If an external method of FAT formatting non-ATA flash cards is available (some
non-CardSoft PC card slots do support this), then CardSoft treats the card as if it were a
write-protected SRAM.
ATA Cards
ATA Cards require a two-part formatting process: initialization and format.
1. To be formatted, the ATA card must first be initialized.
2. To initialize an ATA card, use CardSoft and the ATA initialization program
ATAINIT.
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3. Once initialized, format the card using CardSoft and DOS format.
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Terminal Configuration: Setting Up PCMCIA Cards
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