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PCMCIA FLASH and HP8920B

 
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I have this slew of PCMCIA FLASH memory cards and I need help in determining which if any will work with my HP8920B. The manuals are not very descriptive and I don't want to damage anything in trying. I have some test programs in battery backed SRAM PCMCIA and would like them on FLASH for long term . Help? Thanks Joe? PS If anything it would be helpful to know which ones not to bother trying.

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On 08/25/2018 06:01 PM, RFI-EMI-GUY wrote:
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I have this slew of PCMCIA FLASH memory cards and I need help in
determining which if any will work with my HP8920B. The manuals are not
very descriptive and I don't want to damage anything in trying. I have
some test programs in battery backed SRAM PCMCIA and would like them on
FLASH for long term . Help? Thanks Joe? PS If anything it would be
helpful to know which ones not to bother trying.
Just FYI, every time you "edit your post", the rest of us get another
copy of all of those pictures in our email.

-Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
 

Hi,
You cannot write to any Flash card in a HP 892x radio test set. No "ATA" PCMCIA flash cards (inc CF adaptors) can be read by an 892x. Most of those you have should be readable in your 8920B once you have got the files on to them.
Getting the files on to them has a couple of issues:
1/ Some Flash cards need an external 12V supply and most laptops and PCMCIA adaptors don't provide this despite it being part of the specification.
2/ The card format is not DOS / FAT so you need to use specialst software to write to the card. They are sometimes called "linear" cards and act like RAM/ROM rather than a disk
I have sucessfully used Elan PCMCIA adaptors and their Memory Card Explorer software on a PC. Unfortunatly Elan have gone out of business and even before their products were expensive.
An EPROM programmer with a PCMCIA adaptor can also be used.

Robert G8RPI.
 

EVERY BLINKING TIME YOU EDIT YOUR POST THE ENTIRE CORPUS OF THOSE
THAT GET THESE POSTS BY EMAIL GETS ANOTHER COPY OF YOUR DAMN PICTURES!

I have Fios, and 25Mbit/second download speed, and your 25 Mbytes of
pictures takes about a minute to download, what with all of the overhead
of the email encoding of your pictures.

So, I have now received your stupid pictures at least 4 times, maybe
6 times.

-Chuck Harris

RFI-EMI-GUY wrote:

[Edited Message Follows]
[Reason: added PS]

I have this slew of PCMCIA FLASH memory cards and I need help in determining which if any will work with my HP8920B. The manuals are not very descriptive and I don't want to damage anything in trying. I have some test programs in battery backed SRAM PCMCIA and would like them on FLASH for long term . Help? Thanks Joe PS If anything it would be helpful to know which ones not to bother trying.
 

Calm down Chuck and stop YELLING. Change your settings from individual e-mails to daily digest or you will be getting every response to every thread on every topic. I am no longer editing the post.
 

I still have one old WIN98 laptop with a PCMCIA slot in my closet. I recall trying the MCE program and having difficulty using it or figuring it out.? If I can weed out the 12V cards I might try that again.? Will the 5MB HP card (From an HP 200LX Palmtop read properly in the HP8920B or is it too large?
 

Calm down? Me? Not likely, I am calm enough.

Let's talk about what just happened and why.

The why is when this group was recreated, Dave, for
whatever reason, left the "maximum attachments size"
default setting set to unlimited, and enabled the
group for attachments.

The what is you just sent a 40+ MB attachment to the
group, not once but multiple times as you edited your
text.

Every edit you submitted resulted in another copy of
your 40+MB of pictures being sent to the email users
of the group.

We won't be hearing from our members that are on dialup
for several days, as their internet lines are totally
clogged up by your post.

Dave turned off allow editing, which is good, and I thank
him for that. Now Dave needs to take the next step and
either turn off attachments for the group, or flip the
maximum attachment size to something like 100K.


-Chuck Harris

RFI-EMI-GUY wrote:

Calm down Chuck and stop YELLING. Change your settings from individual e-mails to daily digest or you will be getting every response to every thread on every topic. I am no longer editing the post.
 

I am sorry for barraging you with data. My mistake.

However the new platform does permit in line attachments and that is a total improvement over the old system which for whatever reason did not have attachments, just an album area.?

Apparently there are a lot of delivery options that can be used to trim content for dial up users.

It is a new world. I am still carrying my 2006 vintage Motorola Razr V3M phone (because I LIKE IT) and will do so until it is obsoleted by Verizon next year. My sisters constantly send me messages and such from their iPhones that are incompatible with SMS standards, they could fix it on their end by changing a setting, but I simply ignore them. If it is urgent that can phone me (though their iPhones sound like crap). So I feel you pain. But this is a better platform and attachments are useful for conveying information. I hope it does not get turned off on my account.
 

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Hello,

sorry to sound rough, but I also need to announce my unhappyness with attachments.


I am on a longterm contract with a German email system provider, and have but 2GB of cap. Your messages single-handedly gobbled up 10% of my inbox capacity.


Tam

With best regards
Tam Hanna
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On 26.08.2018 19:33, RFI-EMI-GUY wrote:

I am sorry for barraging you with data. My mistake.

However the new platform does permit in line attachments and that is a total improvement over the old system which for whatever reason did not have attachments, just an album area.?

Apparently there are a lot of delivery options that can be used to trim content for dial up users.

It is a new world. I am still carrying my 2006 vintage Motorola Razr V3M phone (because I LIKE IT) and will do so until it is obsoleted by Verizon next year. My sisters constantly send me messages and such from their iPhones that are incompatible with SMS standards, they could fix it on their end by changing a setting, but I simply ignore them. If it is urgent that can phone me (though their iPhones sound like crap). So I feel you pain. But this is a better platform and attachments are useful for conveying information. I hope it does not get turned off on my account.

 

Tam; You can trim your delivery to block any attachments and get only a digest e-mail. The problem, perhaps is that the groups I/0 system defaults to the most robust delivery options.
 

Getting back on topic,
The 892x test sets can access 2MB memory on external cards (21 address lines on socket). You can use larger cards as long as you don't put more than 2MB on them. Anything above 2MB will be inaccessible to the test set. Copying one SRAM card to a bigger linear FLASH card works fine. I've used up to 32MB cards with no problem.

Robert G8RPI.
 

Robert;
Thank you for steering this back on topic. That is very good to know. Now I have to figure out how to do the linear formatting. Is that the LIF option I saw somewhere?
Dr. David Kirkby from Kirkby Microwave Ltd
 

On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 at 18:36, Tam Hanna <tamhan@...> wrote:

Hello,

sorry to sound rough, but I also need to announce my unhappyness with attachments.

I am on a longterm contract with a German email system provider, and have but 2GB of cap. Your messages single-handedly gobbled up 10% of my inbox capacity.

Tam

With best regards
Tam Hanna
This appears to be an isolated incident, which was mainly caused by the re-sending of a post every time it was edited. That should never happen again as editing has been disabled.

As has been noted, you can turn off attachments in your preferences. Go to? /g/HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment/editsub??
select "Advanced Preferences". Then set the maximum size of attachhment you want to see - which can be 0 (no attachments). Then you will get a link to the attachment provided, but it will not be downloaded unless you click the link.

Dr David Kirkby Ph.D C.Eng MIET
Kirkby Microwave Ltd
Registered office: Stokes Hall Lodge, Burnham Rd, Althorne, CHELMSFORD, Essex, CM3 6DT, United Kingdom.
Registered in England and Wales as company number 08914892

Tel 01621-680100 / +44 1621-680100
C G
 

Hi,

Please next time DO NOT send ***57 MB*** files by mail. In addition, three times the same pictures.
This blocked any message download by my mail application for three full days before I could figure out what the problem was. And still the problem is not fully solved...

Thanks.


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I have this slew of PCMCIA FLASH memory cards and I need help in determining which if any will work with my HP8920B. The manuals are not very descriptive and I don't want to damage anything in trying. I have some test programs in battery backed SRAM PCMCIA and would like them on FLASH for long term . Help? Thanks Joe
 

I am sorry for barraging you with data. My mistake.

However the new platform does permit in line attachments and that is a total improvement over the old system which for whatever reason did not have attachments, just an album area.? Unfortunately the default set up delivers the most robust delivery option which is why attachments were delivered.

Apparently there are a lot of delivery options that can be used to trim content for dial up users. You can set it up to strip all attachments and then you will get a link to whatever you might choose to see.

The home page for this group explains the options which can be set in your: subscription : delivery options.
 

the setting is under advanced options. again, see the homepage for the group for explanation.
 

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Can we PLEASE stop farting about this topic. Downloading 150MB was a nuissance, the permanent whining and farting adds insult to injury.
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With best regards
Tam HANNA (emailing on a BlackBerry PRIV)

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Am 29. August 2018 18:43:48 MESZ schrieb RFI-EMI-GUY <rhyolite@...>:

the setting is under advanced options. again, see the homepage for the group for explanation.

 

Robert;
Ok I dug through my stuff and found an IBM laptop with MCE already installed some years ago. I can read various cards and write to them except for a subset of flash cards that get a warning that MCE does not work with I/O cards. I can explore those cards however and see some data.

Then comes my 2MB SRAM card that works with my instrument. I cannot read it also getting the MCE doe not work with I/O cards. I think I am getting close but somehow missing something. Any thoughts?? Joe

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