My 8gb cf works perfectly and has done so from day one. Perhaps you have a problem with active sync. Maybe you should try using card export.
I don't use ActiveSync, I use card readers, both built-in and USB, to transfer files to my SD and CF cards. By the way, what is "card export?" I don't think I've ever heard that term.
I assume your CF card is solid-state and not a microdrive?
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Hang on, I'm a bit lost. I thought you were having problems with the ax.............. sorry just got it. Are you saying you have problems reading the cf on the ax after writing to the cf using a card reader. Hmmm
Oh well, card export is a little program that lets you change the ax from active sync to card reader ie: the ax works directly as a card reader. I'll have a look for the link, but it is a little late for me and if you search here or google you will find it. I'm actually in a bar in Oslo which is a little loud and getting louder so I'm sorry if I don't get back to it for a while.
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Oh well, card export is a little program that lets you change the ax from active sync to card reader ie: the ax works directly as a card reader. I'll have a look for the link, but it is a little late for me and if you search here or google you will find it. I'm actually in a bar in Oslo which is a little loud and getting louder so I'm sorry if I don't get back to it for a while.
Have one for me while you're in the bar! ;) Thanks, Card Export is an interesting program. Here's the link for anyone interested.
Note that I'm also having a problem transferring larger (>200MB) files such as movies from my SD card to 4- and 8GB CF cards in the X51v (i.e., both cards are in the Axim during the transfer). The files transfer fine to my 1- and 2GB CF cards.
Your 8GB CF card is a solid-state memory card and not a microdrive, correct?
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Yes, it's an 8gb Transcend 120x card. I can transfer moves of nearly 1 gb without problems, either using a card reader or using the ax and card export. I haven't bothered to try using active sync because the tranfer rate is much slower. Also a card reader is still much faster than using ax and card export.
Edit: That beer I had for you was the killer, If only I had stopped with mine.
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Yes, it's an 8gb Transcend 120x card. I can transfer moves of nearly 1 gb without problems, either using a card reader or using the ax and card export. I haven't bothered to try using active sync because the tranfer rate is much slower. Also a card reader is still much faster than using ax and card export.
Edit: That beer I had for you was the killer, If only I had stopped with mine.
Yes, that beer felt good, thanks! :D
I have no problems transferring large files to the card using a card reader. The transfer problem occurs when I try to copy a large file from my 4GB SD card in the Axim to a ≥4GB CF card also in the Axim using either Resco Explorer or the builtin File Explorer. I do this as part of my tests of these cards. A little over halfway through the transfer I get a message that there is insufficient space on the CF card to complete the transfer even though the CF cards were newly formatted before the transfer. This does not happen with CF cards ≤2GB.
For now at least I've given up on large capacity (≥4GB) CF cards in my hx4705 iPAQ and X51v. Extra SD cards are easier to transport anyway, since my cases all have 2 SD card slots. I've ended up having a 2GB CF card and a 4GB SD card installed in the PPCs and 2 extra 4GB SD cards in the case slots. Also, since my new eo i7210 UMPC takes SD cards but not CF cards I doubt if I'll be buying any more CF cards. I have plenty of them around for my wife and daughters' digital cameras already.
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Ive never tried to transfer between cards like that on the Ax. Maybe it is a problem with the Ax itself not being able to "buffer" enough of the file that it is reading and writing. I know nothing about that sort of thing, just a guess.
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Ive never tried to transfer between cards like that on the Ax. Maybe it is a problem with the Ax itself not being able to "buffer" enough of the file that it is reading and writing. I know nothing about that sort of thing, just a guess.
It's apparently not a buffer problem, as the transfer works fine with CF cards of 2GB or less.
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Well Debary, Tom, maybe I am just lucky with my cards but I just tried a few transfers in the Ax. 300mg Avi file from 2gb mini SD to 8gb cf, No problem. 700mg Avi from 4gb SD to 8gb CF no problem. Both movies play and scroll no problems. 400mg mp3 file no problem. Also tried 8gb Cf back to 4gb SD works fine too. It's a lot slower than using a card reader but it works. I've no idea what's happening with yours, I'll guess I'll keep my fingers crossed that it continues to work for me.
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Well guys, it looks like it was a problem with my Axim after all. Yesterday I upgraded the ROM from A11 to A12, since according to its description A12 fixed several CF card issues. It didn't seem to fix the problem, but like a dummy I'd used Sprite Backup's upgrade option to restore my last backup. While reading Box's comments above it dawned on me that if the problem was a bad registry entry restoring the backup would also restore the problem.
I hard-reset the Axim and spent an hour manually installing my core programs. I then stuck in an 8GB CF card and was able to copy a couple of 250MB files to it from my SD card without problems. Also, files written to the CF card using my laptop's card reader are still there and readable when the card is inserted into the Axim.
Although I'm not ready to trust the CF cards with high-value files yet, it does look like the A11 -> A12 ROM update fixed my Axim's CF card problem.
I'm very sorry to have misled ya'll. Please accept my appologies.
Tom
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DeBary, is it possible you only have problems transferring files larger than 2GB (or 2147483647 bytes)? When you mentioned the problems were internal AX problems I started to have a theory that maybe that is what you are seeing?
Many programs assume that a file counter can be held in a standard "signed int" which on a 32-bit platform which can represent 2^31-1 bytes of information. As a matter of fact many OS in history have had this problem including old versions of Windows, DOS and also I believe Linux at one point in time. In fact I think it is FAT16 that has the 2GB per partition limitation even as part of its design. I would not be surprised to find that some "random" program is unable to copy files larger than 2GB.
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DeBary, is it possible you only have problems transferring files larger than 2GB (or 2147483647 bytes)?
Thanks for the suggestion, but the problem was with files 200-250MB, not in the 2GB range. However, the problem appears to have been solved by upgrading the ROM from A11 to A12. Apparently I was one of the "lucky" few whose X51v shipped with A11.
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Glad you got it working DeBary, interestingly though I'm still running A06, maybe that has something to do with it as well.
Thanks for the kind words. I've been trying to find out the difference between ROM A11, with which my X51v shipped, and A12. Surprisingly, no one I've talked to at Dell can tell me. ;) ;)
By the way, the higher-capacity CF cards still don't want to work in my hx4705 iPAQ.
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I only purchased my Axim X51v about 3 weeks ago, so maybe it's up to date?
I've learned a lot from all of you, Thanx so much.
Please feel free to call me Tom, and thanks for the kind words.
I suspect you have ROM A12, but to check go to Start/Settings/System/System Information. The ROM info is given a little more than half-way down the page.
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