Rob Barnett wrote:
> Your advice please.
>
> I need to buy a large compact flash card for my 5MX. Will the 256Mb and 512
> Mb CF cards from Viking or SANDisk being sold on Amazon be compatible with
> my 5MX and work quickly and relaibly as my 16Mb Psion card?
>
> Grateful for your recommendations please.

I got a 1GB Kingston CF card since it was recommended on
http://www.psionwelt.de/buchtipps/index.htm
It works fine in my 5MX Pro but I couldn't boot from it, ie. the 5MX Pro
doesn't load the sys$rom.bin when I put it on the card. But since I have
another smaller CF card which is bootable that is no problem.

> Is there anything to choose between these two badges? Would you recommend a
> different badge?

I once read that highspeed CF card are not faster in Psions, but use
less electrical power, ie. the batteries last longer.

Good luck,

André

"Rob Barnett" writes:

> Your advice please.
>
> I need to buy a large compact flash card for my 5MX. Will the 256Mb and 512
> Mb CF cards from Viking or SANDisk being sold on Amazon be compatible with
> my 5MX and work quickly and relaibly as my 16Mb Psion card?
>
> Grateful for your recommendations please.

I recently bought a 256Mb Sandisk CF card, which works absolutely fine
in my 5mx-s (I have two). Very cheap from Comet in the UK.

David

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FYI, I've been using Sandisk 512MB in both my netbook and 5mx with no
problems.

Keith

thanks Keith

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> FYI, I've been using Sandisk 512MB in both my netbook and 5mx with no
> problems.
>
> Keith
>

David Sumbler wrote:
> "Rob Barnett" writes:
>
>
>>Your advice please.
>>
>>I need to buy a large compact flash card for my 5MX. Will the 256Mb and 512
>>Mb CF cards from Viking or SANDisk being sold on Amazon be compatible with
>>my 5MX and work quickly and relaibly as my 16Mb Psion card?
>>
>>Grateful for your recommendations please.
>
>
> I recently bought a 256Mb Sandisk CF card, which works absolutely fine
> in my 5mx-s (I have two). Very cheap from Comet in the UK.
>
> David
>
I just tried a 2GB CF card - no problems. Intereseting because the
manual says that only 128MB are suportet. It's a 80x type made by Team
(Taiwan). Source: easy2save.de - they have an office in Berlin where you
can try and buy different cards up to 8GB.

Mario

In article , Mario Meyer wrote:
> I just tried a 2GB CF card - no problems. Intereseting because the
>
Isn't there a limit on FAT-16 file systems at 2 GB?
Does that crack things?
That's a point - one that I may pursue in a couple of hours -
how does a Psion handle CFs partitioned into several partitions?

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Written at Thu, 01 Dec 2005 11:02 GMT

In article , Rob
Barnett wrote:

> Your advice please.
>
> I need to buy a large compact flash card for my 5MX. Will the 256Mb and 512
> Mb CF cards from Viking or SANDisk being sold on Amazon be compatible with
> my 5MX and work quickly and relaibly as my 16Mb Psion card?
>
I have a SimpleTech CF card that works just fine. It's a 128 meg card.

Scott

Hi,

I've got a Kingston Technology 2 GigaByte card in my 5mx.
Certainly it was expensive but I have no storage problem on
my 5mx now.

But Psions are notoriously picky about CF cards. If you can,
check first (try http://www.pscience5.net, Martin lists several
CF cards there). Better still, don't pay until you've tried it!

Take care,
Phil.

"Time wounds all heels."

http://aypee1.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/

Phil Aypee wrote:

> I've got a Kingston Technology 2 GigaByte card in my 5mx.

I've tried a Kingston, too, but the data gets corrupt every now
and then. Replaced it by a SanDisk - same again. Then tried a
GreenStorage (Toshiba) - no more problems.

IOW: Keep your backups up to date (at least for the first six
months)!

[...]
> But Psions are notoriously picky about CF cards.

Yep. ((

Greets, Dirk
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