bluedoze

Hello All,

Can I save my important data (Contacts, Calendars, appointments, etc) on the ROM on Axim, as iPAQ do ? so it cannot be lost due to power cut.

Bluedoze

Talador

Yes you can if you so choose too. :P

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desiv

Does anyone else have a problem with a concept of writing to ROM????

I think this Acronym (ROM) has outlived it's relavence.. When it started it was more accurately WORM memory (Write Once, Read Many), but it's been along time since the industry really used ROMs.. They're almost all erasable now, and most allow easy write access...

Just something else to confuse the newbies...

(There's a few questions on writing to ROM on the Dell boards too...)

desiv

commoved

I have a different problem in writing to ROM. The Flash memory has a fininte number of write cycles. I don't know the Intel specs for this Flash, but I heard that CE has a management routine to move the writes around and even them out. If you want to put a new program in Flash every month, this will never be a problem. If you want to change a data file every day, your Ax would have to live for a very long time to create a problem. But data files that change frequently... why risk it? You only get one Flash, and when that nice new OS upgrade comes out, guess where it has to go.

Why not just synch to Outlook. You can't ever lose more than a day's data or so.

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commoved

Sorry -- just thought of another pb. Check some of the other posts. If something goes wrong while writing to Flash, the PPC can "forget" that Flash memory exists. If that happens, you have to get a new Dell, dude!

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desiv

Yeah, there's a "semi-hidden" routine on the IPaq that lets you, with a serial cable (I believe) copy your ROM to CF card, and then, in the event of a corrupt ROM (Which was happening due to some bad IPaq ROM update routines), you could reverse the process, and reflash it back.. I'm hoping there's something similar on the Axim...

desiv

p.s. Intel is claiming in the neighborhood of 100,000 rewrites with the strataflash.. So at once a day, you're talking 273 years.. If you figure you have the Axim for 4 years, that's 68 writes every day..