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From: metcalf@akala.IFA.Hawaii.Edu (Tom Metcalf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: 48 archive crash
Message-ID: <10714@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Date: 19 Dec 90 19:42:41 GMT
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In article <1888@xenon.kcl-cs.UUCP>, neil@kcl-cs.UUCP (Neil Faulks) writes:
|> 
|> I just tried archiving my 48 onto my PC. The transfer proceeded okay
|> and the PC beeped at the end of the transfer as normal. The 48 also
|> beeped but when I looked at the screen it had the dreaded - Try to
|> recover memory prompt.
|> I hit YES but ended up with loads of dirs called d.01 .. d.09 etc.
|> Fortunately the archive had worked and I was able to download it again.
|> 
|> I have one 128K card and version D ROMS. I was using about 74K total.
|> 
|> Does anyone have any idea what is going on!!!! I know that there
|> used to be a bug associated with ver A ROMS and the clock, but I
|> think my clock was off anyway.

You probably had your clock display on.  This will cause a crash on occasion
when archiving.  I believe this was fixed in E ROMs, but I have  a D so
I not sure.

Tom Metcalf