Intermec Janus 2020 User Manual page 314

JANUS 2020 Hand-Held Computer User's Manual
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 and
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 from the MCFORMAT main menu to erase a
flash card.
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.