On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Akkana wrote: > > Hal DeVore writes: > > > Additionally, having to install a large PDB or ebook directly onto > > > external storage is a very attractive option for me, > > > > Dunno if there are Linux drivers for such things but most media > > formats have external readers that plug into USB. I use a ZiO > > SmartMedia reader on Windoze to load up large docs for my > > Visor's MemPlug SmartMedia adapter. The ZiO cost me < $30 (US). > > The Zio SM reader only works as read-only on linux, but the MemoryStick > reader built into my Vaio laptop works fine (read-write) as usb-storage. > I'm fairly sure there are other USB and/or PCMCIA Memory Stick readers > that will work, so it's a question of whether the filesystem on the > Clie is something that Linux can recognize (like VFAT).
I'm pretty sure that VFS defaults to VFAT (In fact, the HandEra PDA's can't use anything but VFAT). I know that I can use a CF reader/writer on a Win98 box to access the CF card I use in my HandEra 330. _______________________________________________ Pilot-unix mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hcirisc.cs.binghamton.edu/mailman/listinfo/pilot-unix
