Tina, How much free space do you have on your flash disk, and also on your Keysoft System disk? I have seen shortage of space cause strange things like this on my Braillenote and PC. The culprit with the PC was lack of space.
Just a thought. Sincerely, Jerry Weinger > ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Tina Birnenbaum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "Braillenote List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 11:36:00 -0700 >Subject: [Braillenote] bad flash disk >Hi. Has anyone had trouhble with their flash disks lately? Last weekend mine >stopped leting me do anything clear the planner create or delete files. >Luckily the machine is in warranty, but I'm wondering how comon this is. I >finally reached the lone tech support person, and am sending it in since >clearing the keysoft.ksd did not work. HAS anyone seen much of this or is my >unit just being very odd. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Karen McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "Braillenote List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 9:24 AM >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Strange BrailleNote Keysoft Error Message >> Beth, I think this is a very important addition to this thread. It says >to >> me that if one has version 5.0 burned in to rom and if one installs >version >> 5.1 that this error could come up on the display. Actually, I have tried >to >> bring my husband's machine back to version 5.0 but I can't seem to do >this. >> I'll try again, and probably after sending this message, I'll be >successful, >> (smile.) To sum things up as I see them: there is something wrong >between >> version 5.0 and version 5.1. >> Karen >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Beth Hatch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To: "'Braillenote List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 11:51 AM >> Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Strange BrailleNote Keysoft Error Message >>> Hello everyone, >>> Karen's and Dean's messages to me and others got me to thinking >>> about my BrailleNote experiences over the last couple of months. I'll >try >>> and make this quick.<smile> But hopefully it will help us to resolve >the >>> issue. >>> I received my BrailleNote in late August of 2003. It had Keysoft >>> 4.01 burned into ROM, and Keysoft 5.0 was just about to be released so I >>> went to the software download site and scrupulously followed the >>> instructions from the web site and put Keysoft 5.0 on the BrailleNote. >I >>> downloaded it with my pc and I used Activesync and the BrailleNote >utility >>> written to be used with it and Keysoft 5.0 worked fine for about five >> months >>> without any issues or problems. >>> In January of this year, I started having access problems with my >>> BrailleNote flash disk. This was stressful as all of my school notes >were >>> on that disk in several folders and files. Several times during my >class >>> lectures, I would get a disk error, sometimes a message that the flash >> disk >>> couldn't be read or that system files could not be found or were >corrupt; >>> sometimes the BrailleNote would tell me to perform a regular reset, and >>> sometimes a reset with dots 1-2-3. After the third 1-2-3 reset in as >many >>> days, the BrailleNote finally went back to Keysoft 4.01. After >several >>> resets and several more flash disk errors in the next week, my >BrailleNote >>> became totally inoperable and I sent in for repair. Luckily, since I >> could >>> tell that the machine was performing poorly at that time, this was right >>> after 4.01 of Keysoft was loaded, I backed up all of my school folders >on >> my >>> Compact Flash Card and so I was able to restore all of my notes to the >> flash >>> disk again when my machine came back almost three weeks later. >>> When I turned on my repaired unit, I noted that I was now running >>> Keysoft 5.0 Build 25, when I had installed Keysoft myself, the build >that >>> came up was Build 24. >>> Everything was going swimmingly so when Keysoft 5.1 came out, I >>> downloaded it to my pc and put the executable program on my Compact >flash >>> disk. I followed the instructions from the software download site on >the >>> PulseData web site and performed all of the recommended resets at the >> proper >>> times as directed. >>> As I said in my previous message, all applications worked perfectly >>> with the exception of the "cannot run this version of Keysoft" message. >>> Since Karen got me into thinking about the version of Keysoft I have >> burned >>> in the BrailleNote ROM, it would make sense that after my machine was >>> repaired that Keysoft 5.0 was burned into ROM. >>> When Dean asked me earlier if I had done a 1-2-3 reset, I had not, >>> so yesterday, I did the 1-2-3 reset. Keysoft 5.0 build 25 came back to >my >>> machine. The messages about running the wrong version of Keysoft have >> gone >>> away. I also should point out that my book reader seems to be keeping >> track >>> of where I left off in books again. When I was using Keysoft 5.1, >> whenever >>> I opened the book reader, it would try to open to my Operating Systems >>> folder (one of my classes) rather then the book I had been reading, all >of >>> my pleasure reading books are stored on my Compact Flash Card. It seems >>> that no matter where I am in the book reader, usually the compact flash >>> disk, the book reader would always go back to my operating systems >folder >> on >>> my BrailleNote flash disk and my operating systems folder. >>> That no longer happens at all now that Keysoft 5.0 is running on my >>> machine again, the reader has always remembered where I leave off, >whether >>> it's on the Compact Flash disk or the BrailleNote flash disk. >>> I hope this message gives some clarification as to what started this >>> strange error message at least from my end of the universe.<smile >>> Sorry for the long message. >>> Beth >>> ___ >>> To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >>> http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >> ___ >> To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >> http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
