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Hi All,
I just received a Hitachi 4GB Microdrive but it looks that it cannot be recognised by my O2 XDAII v.1.60.00 WWE version.
In Win XP it is recognised by my card reader as formatted with FAT32 and shows 4GB capacity. Works properly.
When inserted in the Backpack, I am prompted for the driver (atadisk.dll) but after entering it, nothing happens. No extra Storage file added. Nothing.
Hitachi Support site says that the newer drivers are included in Win Mobile.
The threads in the Forums don't help much to solve the problem.
Anybody has solved it? Is the 4GB microdrive compatible or not?
Could somebody throw any help at this? :?:
Many Thanks,
Gear :?
Update, 16 Sept. 2004
Two months later and looking through ALL threads for the Microdrive in this site and the respective links, the only thing discovered was a picture of a 340(?) MB Microdrive inserted in the Backpack.
I assume (mentioned in another thread) that up to 2 GB the Microdrive should work but I am not willing to buy a second one to find out.
No luck though for the 4GB Microdrive up-to-date.
If anybody knows anything different, please post a reply.
Gear
Backpack and 4GB Microdrive
Did anyone actually manage to solve this one? I've just got hold of a 4GB drive and can't get it recognised in the XDA2 at all
David
the XDA series has only been tested by o2 with cards upto 1gb. there is no garuntee it will work.
what about partising it in to two 2gb drives or 4 1gb drives? might work?
IT WORKS
I own the xda2i
i bought a backpack
i bought a ibm hitach 4gb microdrive
the device instantly recognises it as a 4gb storage card
who needs an ipod!!
o/s specs: win mobiile 2003 second edition vers. 4.21.1088
ps
i upload data to the card by putting it in a card reader slot from my pc.[/b]
Re: IT WORKS
wildz_angel said:
I own the xda2i
i bought a backpack
i bought a ibm hitach 4gb microdrive
the device instantly recognises it as a 4gb storage card
who needs an ipod!!
o/s specs: win mobiile 2003 second edition vers. 4.21.1088
ps
i upload data to the card by putting it in a card reader slot from my pc.[/b]
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where did you buy the backpack?is the one for XDA2 also work for XDA2i?
cheers
from an o2 shop......yes the backpack will fit the xda 2 and 2 i as they are the same casing but it will not fit the xda2s
IT WORKS
Could someone kindly post here the driver(s) file(s) of the XDA 2s for the disk?
There are two files on my XDA II both in the \Windows directory:
1)atadisk.dll dated 23 Feb. 2004 & size 16.5 k
2)AtaDisk.dll dated 15 March 2004 & size 18.5 k
but none of them can see the 4GB Microdrive.
Many thanks for the help.
Gear
i'm not suprised the xda 2s cannot recognize the 4gb microdrive in a backpack.......
the xda2s is not compatible with the backpack!!!
further more..... the backpack and microdrive need no drivers .... they are plug and play!!
IT Works.
I meant the drivers of the XDA 2i which seem to be newer than the ones in my XDA II.
Sorry for the confusion.
Gear
again:.......drivers????? the backpack plugs on... tyhje card goes in... it works no drivers neededc or provided... are you talking about the rom etc?
wildz_angel said:
again:.......drivers????? the backpack plugs on... tyhje card goes in... it works no drivers neededc or provided... are you talking about the rom etc?
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It is not that simple on the XDA II. The backpack plugs OK and is recognised but on the insertion of the microdrive it asks for drivers. It is not recognised as "plug 'n play". At least my 4GB Hitachi Microdrive. The exisiting drivers (above mentioned) in the XDA II, are not working to recognise the drive.
I suppose that in the new 2003 O/S the drivers recognise the drive. Hence my request for the newer ones.
Gear
i believe ur best option would be to forget about drivers and to update ur rom
I've just bought myself a SanDisk SD 256MB + Wi-Fi card . I want to go wardriving eventually with my HTC Magician and the Wi-Fi card.. I'll need to practice cracking WEPkeys first . Since I do not own a laptop, I can't use the common tools (airodump, aircrack, kismet). I want to use my Magician for cracking/sniffing etc. Does anyone have good tools for doing this on MS Windows PPC2003SE?
Wardriving
http://www.kasuei.com/hitchhiker/
ok guys how about you put here your hardware thats working in BUZZmobile 2005 like
Working Hardware
1 -Sandisk 1GB SD card
2 -Jabra headset 250
3 -Siemans 32MB MMC card
4 -Pretec 128MMC card
it will be easy to get working hardware them....
what about the backpack
and the thumb keyboard and
other keyboards ?
SANDISK Wi-Fi
I've been playing around with the Sandisk Wi-Fi only card on WM2005 and I find the Sandisk 256MB+WiFi drivers work better than the standard ones as these support WPA security. However I am suffering from weird storage card issues and slowdowns due to the extra bit of the driver that handles the 256MB part of the card, which as we all know doesn't actually work on an XDA II anyway.
Would it be possible for someone to extract JUST the WiFi component of these drivers and leave out the 256MB storage driver component?
http://www.sandisk.com/retail/drivers-sdwsdb-256.asp
(using 2003 version)
Rudegar said:
other keyboards ?
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i have universal irda keyboard sk6688 (try google) and it's working very good..
only problem is, that i can't turn off it's driver and turn it on, i lose backlight (softreset is a solution)
so socket wifi works in Buzzmobile
socket wifi works very well in Buzzmobile i received one for excanghe of a sandisk with memory
so one more to add
Working:
1gb PNY SD
1gb Sandisk SD
Pretec SD WLAN
Jabra BT800
Socket OEM BT GPS (black one)
Which drivers do you use rictec for your socket wi-fi card?
i think is the wifi smart phone version
i do think that it works great in socket buzzmobile its somewhere here
wm2005wifi.cab
I tried the Bluetooth Apple Pro Wireless Keyboard, it worked great.
Works in all apps, including desktop, the Apple key works like Windows key and brings up the start menu.
You can only pair the KB with one device by the look of it, so if you want to use it for your PC mainly (like me) then you have to re-pair with phone each time you want to send a sms or email via xda, a pain. But lets face it, your not going to carry the full KB everywhere are you!
I find it interesting that the KB worked so well though. Good to see WM2k5 support keyboard over bluetooth
I would like to set up my Exec to use a external hard drive to access files. Is it possible to connect and use a external hard drive on my PPC?
You can your ppc into a USD memory stick, however there are considerations :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=45411
Only managed to do it via wifi. Just for streaming video and music.
You can't connect external drive to universal, because it does not have USB host functionality.
The only way is to connect over WIFi, there is an ASUS WiFi external drive that works like this.
Of course you can use WiFi, UMTS or even BT to connect to your home machine and access stuff or you can use services like Avvenu or ORB for this...
Where could I get a Bluetooth external drive at?
BUMP THAT said:
Where could I get a Bluetooth external drive at?
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To my knowledge you can't.As far as I know there is no BT drives on the market. The only solution is WiFi or internet service.
OK. Thank you. Myabe I can get a WIFI Drive.
We already have 4gb sd cards for little money, 8 gb for a bit more, and 32 gb on the way to market. That's why there are no hard disks for Universal.
tailazoom said:
We already have 4gb sd cards for little money, 8 gb for a bit more, and 32 gb on the way to market. That's why there are no hard disks for Universal.
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I don't think Universal has support for High Capacity SD cards.
"Normal" SD standard only supports sizes up to 2Gb. There are some 4Gb cards that work in some machines (but it's not 100%).
The newer cards are SDHC specification, that is a revision of original SD standard, and your machine has to support SDHC in order to use such cards, unfortunatelly I don't think Universal does support this...
Several members of this forum are using 4gb sd cards with Universal
4gb cards work fine with the universal as it can read FAT32.
colonel said:
4gb cards work fine with the universal as it can read FAT32.
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This has nothing to do with ability to read FAT32 - as far as I know pretty much any WM device reads FAT32. It has to do with the fact that SD specification goes onlt to 2Gb. There are some 4Gb cards that go around the 2Gb limitation, and you can use these cards in SD capable devices - but it's not guaranteed that such card will work.
The new SDHC cards, are bult with new specification, and you have to have a device capable of reading such cards.
I don't know if Universal, or any other current WM device supports this or if a software patch can help.
Basically what you have to be aware is that if you buy HC card, you sould better test it first in your device, to make sure it will work!
AFAIK Secure Digital High Capacity SDHC is just fat 32 which the UNI has no problem with, the devices that will really struggle are the likes of cameras
ice_coffee said:
AFAIK Secure Digital High Capacity SDHC is just fat 32 which the UNI has no problem with, the devices that will really struggle are the likes of cameras
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Like I said, I'm not sure if SDHC will work in Universal or any other current WM machine - I would definatelly be carefull.
On the other hand I'm also not sure why FAT32 would be the difference between SD and SDHC, as I had most of my cards formatted with FAT32 since at least my iPAQ in 2003...
Anyhow here is a link with announcement about SDHC, that clearly states 2Gb limit of "normal" SD cards, but no details on technical differences of both specifications.
http://www.sdcard.org/events/SDHC_Release06.pdf
my 4gb works flawless...
but thats also thanks to newer rom (since older roms had the camera problem)
im sure when the 1st 8gb SD cards become available someone will try if it works and we will also know...
if it wont work well in 1st attempt, maybe a rom-update could fix it 8)
This has now gone off topic!!
I spend alot of my time in forums just searching in order not to make usless or double posts in regards to what I require!!
There are threads open already in regards to the high capacity SD cards sao why are they not being used?
In regards to the external hd on universal believe this to be case closed unless someone has something to input about it....actually about it!
This forum is great but unfortunatelly already bad for indexing for search purposes....lets not make it worst.
WBR
My 4gb works fine. Only problem is that I still have the original rom and needed less than 2gb free space for it to work, but then that was why I got a bigger card...
Well, i have read all the posts and saw allot of people had problems with card, but mine is the most stupid ever, its a 2gb microSD with adapter and sometimes works, sometimes not, now i have put a sdhc driver and the funny thing it works like this, i remove my card it doesn't see it anymore but when i restart he see it almost every time, i do not get it, it does this on all os and all ipl/spl and radio roms... the card reader is clean now and without physical error, and the card is new and working perfect. Does anyone know how to fix this? if not lets try to fix this coul be useful for many... Thanks!
Closely resembling the HTC Magician, the device is a 2.75G phone with a 2.8" 240x320 touchscreen, a 2.0 Megapixel Digital Camera, Bluetooth 2.0 without EDR (equivalent to version 1.2 with additional bug fixes), WiFi 802.11b/g, Infrared Technology, Microsoft Push email access, 128 MB internal memory and a full sized SD card slot (no SDHC support). It is based on the Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 Professional platform, and was among the first Pocket PC phones to use the operating system. It has Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The phone also includes Pocket Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player 10 Mobile as well as some carrier or provider specific
I have exactly the same problem lol like you .... who can i resolve this problem ?
HAHAHA is back and ok now i put a needle in contacts very slow in all and its ok now lets see what time the card reader resist