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From: kachelme on 25 Oct 2006 16:46 Hi, Has anyone else had difficulty getting subdirectories and files to show in port 3 after installing an SD card on their hp 50g? On mine only the directory shows. Programs filed away on the SD card work - the problem is they don't show on the screen. Help appreciated. Allan
From: Joe Horn on 26 Oct 2006 11:48 kachelme wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone else had difficulty getting subdirectories and files to show > in port 3 after installing an SD card on their hp 50g? On mine only the > directory shows. Programs filed away on the SD card work - the problem > is they don't show on the screen. Help appreciated. > > Allan Are you using the filer or the LIB menu? Tell us exactly what keys you're pressing so that we can figure out what's going wrong. -Joe-
From: kachelme on 29 Oct 2006 16:27 Joe Horn wrote: > kachelme wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone else had difficulty getting subdirectories and files to show > > in port 3 after installing an SD card on their hp 50g? On mine only the > > directory shows. Programs filed away on the SD card work - the problem > > is they don't show on the screen. Help appreciated. > > > > Allan > > Are you using the filer or the LIB menu? Tell us exactly what keys > you're pressing so that we can figure out what's going wrong. > > -Joe- Joe, Related to the above questions with regard to the SD card, when I formatted the card it took like 5 hours. At the end of that 5 hours no message was displayed, but the screen was blank, and, voila, port 3 listed 0.911 GB on a 2 GB card. Programs put on port 3 work, but they just aren't seen. By this I mean in the File Manager only directories are shown. Port 3 doesn't show under RS LIB, and nothing shows in port 3 under an external computer connection. My question is again whether this is as it should be. Thanks. Allan
From: Joe Horn on 30 Oct 2006 10:45 kachelme wrote: > Related to the above questions with regard to the SD card, when I > formatted the card it took like 5 hours. To format the card? Yikes. Bad card, probably. Formatting should take a few moments at most. Try formatting it to FAT16 on a computer. (FAT32 is nice, but the HP takes a long time to turn on when a big FAT32 card is installed.) > port 3 listed 0.911 GB on a 2 GB card. That's reasonable, since the filer display assumes a 1 gig limit. It *works* ok with bigger cards, but it cannot show the free mem correctly. Not in any ROM versions so far, that is. > Programs put on port 3 work, but they just aren't seen. > By this I mean in the File Manager only directories > are shown. Directories? In port 3? Which kind, DOS directories (labeled "DIR" in port 3) or HP directories (labeled "HPDIR" in port 3)? Are you pressing [FILES], then [3] to get into port 3? > Port 3 doesn't show under RS LIB. It's not supposed to. > and nothing shows in port 3 under an external > computer connection. There's no way to access port 3 via the USB cable. Is any of that helpful? -Joe-
From: kachelme on 31 Oct 2006 12:37
Joe Horn wrote: > kachelme wrote: > > > Related to the above questions with regard to the SD card, when I > > formatted the card it took like 5 hours. > > To format the card? Yikes. Bad card, probably. Formatting should > take a few moments at most. Try formatting it to FAT16 on a computer. > (FAT32 is nice, but the HP takes a long time to turn on when a big > FAT32 card is installed.) > > > port 3 listed 0.911 GB on a 2 GB card. > > That's reasonable, since the filer display assumes a 1 gig limit. It > *works* ok with bigger cards, but it cannot show the free mem > correctly. Not in any ROM versions so far, that is. > > > Programs put on port 3 work, but they just aren't seen. > > By this I mean in the File Manager only directories > > are shown. > > Directories? In port 3? Which kind, DOS directories (labeled "DIR" in > port 3) or HP directories (labeled "HPDIR" in port 3)? Are you > pressing [FILES], then [3] to get into port 3? > > > Port 3 doesn't show under RS LIB. > > It's not supposed to. > > > and nothing shows in port 3 under an external > > computer connection. > > There's no way to access port 3 via the USB cable. > > Is any of that helpful? > > -Joe- Joe, Thanks. I did format again, this time on my labtop. Surprisingly, the format did not eliminate the two DOS directories on the card, nor did it eliminate a small program under one of them. Format on the labtop, however, has not helped resolve what prompted my initial inquiry. Files 3 still only shows the two DOS directories I have on the SD card, and not any programs under them. My questions are whether this is as it should be, and are there any ways of seeing what programs are in these SD directories. (Perhaps every program stored on the SD card needs some additional programming to help make it visible.) Allan |