Avier/ Winpilot 12 Problem- Again

On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 6:11:19 PM UTC-7, Peter Kovari wrote:
My set up runs from the storage card just fine.

I wonder if you have it both intalled on the PNA and the micro sd card confuses things?

Hmmm?

I may be wrong, but I think it keeps all of its preference and setup files in the same directory that the program resides. So if you try to run from the storage card everything (including all the com parameters) must be set up again.

I have run it from a storage card without any unique issues that I was aware of.

In general, if you have lots of "real" program memory (and you should on an Avier) I think it is best to run any PDA software from memory, not a flash card. Flash memory is slow block access, and has a unique "read many" failure mode not shared with other types of memory. If you read a location enough times it can fail, even though never written to. That is why cell phones, solid state drives, etc. all have "wear leveling" algorithms built into the memory management. I doubt very seriously if something as antiquated as Windows CE has this, being last revised practically before flash memory was invented.

I would install it all and get it running in internal memory, then copy all the files to the flash card in the same hierarchy. That gives you a quick backup if the battery dies: copy it back to the Program directory and off you go again.