[missing-sync-palmos-talk] mounting a disk via MS or via a card reader

[Scott Gruby]

On Mar 8, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Jason Davies wrote:

> I've been working with the files on my memory card direct by mounting
> through MS but got fed up with fiddling around to activate MS and
> wondered if a reader would be quicker (using the iTunes plugin is
> tortuously slow in my experience, for example, and effectively kills
> iTunes for several minutes).
>
> But the card seems to get corrupted in the reader, data getting lost 
> and
> so on. Is Missing Sync doing something special here? I refromatted the
> card in the Palm and replaced the files, then some of them got 
> corrupted
> again. I'd apprectiae knowing (roughly) how MS does it, in case I have 
> a
> faulty card reader that I should return (ie are they equals or is this
> predictable?)
>

Missing Sync is not doing anything special with the plugin. I routinely 
change between mounting cards using Missing Sync and using a card 
reader. Personally I have a San Disk ImageMate 8 in 1 card reader (USB 
2.0). For machines that have USB 2.0, a card reader might be 
significantly faster as no Palm OS based handheld has USB 2.0.

I'd recommend trying a different card reader.

--
Scott Gruby
Lead Engineer, Missing Sync for Palm OS
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