[NTLK] ATA support - problem with ATA device

[Dan]

*waves to Victor* 

Good to see you are still around. :)

Also, back to the original question, did you ever try to reformat the card in something else and see if the Newton could use it afterwards?

If I recall, some cards do not play nice with the ATA driver.  But it seems to be a work or don't work situation.  Over the years, I rarely have heard of anyone losing data if they got it working at the onset.  Unless there was a overall failure of the card.  One warning about flash cards: buying them used is often asking for trouble.  You often never know how much they have been used.  They can be fine for a while, then go belly up without any warning.  I always wished there was affordable diagnostics for such cards so we could tell how much 'life' is left on a card.

I never used the ATA driver myself since it was a bit slower than Linear and I did load huge packages such as mp3's or such.

Also is this ATA card Sandisk brand?  I have heard they work well with the ATA driver.

-Dan


On 3/20/2018 10:42 AM, Victor Rehorst wrote:
> <lurk mode off>
> 
> I know that I did a lot of testing of ATA Support pre-release builds
> back in 2001 and 2002.  Paul and I would correspond via IRC mostly back
> then.  I can't recall if anyone else did testing.
> 
> So I guess I can say that it was tested pretty thoroughly...
> 
> -V
> 
> <lurk mode on>
> 
> 
> On 19/03/18 03:34 PM, Frank wrote:
>> But to the best of my knowledge, ATA support has never seen an
>> official release that was tested thoroughly.
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