[Solved] 50g port 2 (FLASH) memory. Not 766 kb

[pier4r]

To test the new RPL, I had to flash the firmware. Since the newRPL does not seem able to communicate with a PC yet - but for the ones that wants to juggle with the SD card should be fine, - I decided to go back to the 2.15 firmware since I wanted to do some computations.

Then I noticed this in the 2.15 upgrade.pdf (the pdf file that comes with the zip holding the 2.15 firmware, downloaded from hpcalc.org)

Quote:An empty 50g Port2 will report 766KB in the filer.

Now my 50g is not empty, but the numbers do not add up.



Memory plus size of the libraries and data:
344183 bytes, not 766000 (or similar values).

Why is it so? (update: the "memory" part always refer to the home, not to the current selected port. So my computation is misleading)

I tried to search on google (string "site:hpmuseum.org flash size 50g" ) but I got only confirmations or unrelated threads.

- http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/...ead=145388

update1: the SD filer library is missing, and it was installed before.
update2: maybe it is exactly the "port2 issues" mentioned in the upgrade procedure? I give it a try with the 2 MB ROM fix.

update3: ok, my bad, it was exactly the port 2 issue. with the 2 mb rom fix it worked again.