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Old 07-24-05, 07:39 PM   #12 (permalink)
eugenia
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Well then, NOW you make it clear. If it's the SAME MODEL, and ONLY that particular card does not work, then your CARD is to blame, obviously! Not the slots. The fact that it works on Zaurus though doesn't mean that the card is completely healthy. The Zaurus does not use the same driver that Windows uses and so the SAME errors are going to be dealt with a DIFFERENT way depending on the driver.

For example, if a sector is dead on the card, the Windows driver might not be able to deal with it, while the Zaurus driver can, because it simply uses different algorithms to deal with bad sectors. On a different kind of error the Windows driver might be successful and the Zaurus might not. It's how it is with different algorithms or even hardware slots (in some cases the hardware itself of the pda can do some error correction, zaurus' might just be of better quality than the Axim one).

When I replied the above comments I did not realize that you had 4 of the SAME cards (exact same models) that worked with both PDAs. I did not realize that you would not know of the possibility explained above.

I suggest you throw that card away. Even if your Zaurus works with it NOW, if the card is defective or is prone for more errors, you might lose data in the future. My sincere advice: throw it away.
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