#linear flash

Software for OmniDrives!

If you purchased a PCM-CR-U2EX-LF, PCM-CR-U2EX-SR, PCM-CR-U2EX-SD/LF, PCM-CR-U2EX-SD/CF, or other OmniDrive, then PC Card Manager software is part of your purchase.

Older models came with a software CDROM. Newer models come with a card providing the manufacturer's web address for where you can download the software (image above). Please download and install the software from that address. www.csm.de/software

HOWTOs and FAQs for OmniDrive with Linear Flash and Honeywell EGPWS

Quick Start: OmniDrive writing a binary image to PC Card

Quick Start: using an OmniDrive USB LF with PCMCIA PC Card Linear Flash

As a general rule, Linear Flash is erased, rather than “formatted.”

Honeywell Bulletin regarding EGPWS and CUG10548F Card Issues

CUG10548F Honeywell compatible 64MB Linear Flash PCMCIA PC Cards

Viewing File Contents

OmniDrive: Comparing .bin files to Linear Flash images

OmniDrives and Power Supplies Primer

CUG10548F Linear Flash PCMCIA Memory PC Cards and OmniDrive Readers

CUG10548F Linear FlashPCMCIA Memory PC Cards and OmniDrive Readers for loading Honeywell MK VII EGPWS databases!

As a general rule, Linear Flash is erased, rather than "formatted."

As a general rule, Linear Flash is erased, rather than "formatted." While there are ways to emulate file systems like DOS on these cards, they are rarely deployed that way.

These instructions should ensure that everything is installed correctly.

Near the end of the tutorial it discusses the blank check feature. To erase, rather than clicking that button, you would click "Erase" to erase the card. (see Image A above).

Quick Start: Erasing Linear Flash PC Cards using the OmniDrive LF

In PC Card Manager choose the menu item:

Actions -> Linear FLASH Utilities

Click the "Erase" button.

Honeywell Cards

However, if you're trying to copy a Honeywell supplied binary to the card, you should follow these instructions instructions instead.

CUG10548F Honeywell compatible 64MB Linear Flash PCMCIA PC Cards

PCM-LFSA-CUG10548F-2 Synchrotech 64MB Linear Flash Honeywell Specification LFP Line. For use with devices like the Honeywell MK VII Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) Terrain Database. Drop in replacement for SMART Modular Technologies’ discontinued CUG10548F line.

Viewing File Contents

Tools -> Hex Edit

OmniDrive: Comparing .bin files to Linear Flash images

This guide assumes the OmniDrive is connected to the host system and that the drivers/software were installed correctly using administrator permissions. To verify this, please see Quick Start: using an OmniDrive USB LF with PCMCIA PC Card Linear Flash OmniDrive will not work if the settings described in that document are not correct.

Getting started

We will use PCM-LFSA-CUG10548F Synchrotech 64MB Linear Flash Honeywell Specification LFP Line cards with a third party supplied binary. We already covered the topic Quick Start: OmniDrive writing a binary image to PC Card, so here we are only concerned with ensuring that cards already written are identical to the binary file they were imaged from.

Verifying

To run a comparison of the file to PC Card choose the menu item:

Actions -> Compare

The selections in the "Files to Compare" dialog should be identical to those just used to effect a copy. Clicking the Compare button should yield no result after the progress screen (i.e. only yields a warning if they are not duplicates). Figures One, Two, and Three show the "Compare Files to PC Card" dialog before, during, and after the process of comparing.

You can also view the card contents before and after using:

Tools -> Hex Edit