[bookport] Re: Firmware Updating

  • From: Chris Hill <hillco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:13:29 -0500

I suspect it does, because I've never got the warning.  You may be
learning about the vaguaries of flash memory the hard way.


On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:23:34 -0500 (CDT), you wrote:

>I just updated to the latest firmware beta today. As I mentioned before, I 
>had been having problems doing so because of a message saying there was an 
>error writing to file. Since I got no suggestions on this, I tried 
>formatting my card, saying a cheerful goodbye to the stuff i had on it. 
>This did the trick, and I was able to update successfully. I'm wondering, 
>under what circumstances will you get that warning saying that you may 
>have to run chkcsk? Does it happen when there is a known problem that the 
>system detects or does it just happen randomly or is there some other 
>cryteria by which it decides when you need a warning? I.E., when I get the 
>warning about running chkdsk before updating my firmware, does this mean a 
>problem has been detected?
>
>Bruce


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