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From: "Joachim Mertens" <brainchild@cityweb.de>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english
Subject: Re: Memory card directory problems
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:16:36 +0100
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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>Yes, I've experienced the same problem.
>My dxcard program (with source, available on my site)
>will not re-read the card directory properly if a card is
>replaced with a different one.  Even if I used the TestCard function to
>check for it, apparently the firstfile and nextfile functions cache the
>directory somewhere and I do not know how to re-initialize them to
>re-read off the card.
>
>kirk
>
>---------------------------------------------------------
>Kirk Bender kbender@znet.com http://sj.znet.com/~kbender
>http://www.scea.sony.com/net/yaroze/pages/kbender.html

I have found out that you have to call the function "firstfile" during the
card change, I mean the point of time when the slot is empty. That increases
the probability of the correct re-reading but its not even perfect.
I´m sure there is a little trick that clears the buffer. For example SIOCONS
has not such problems. With this program you can always list the correct
directory (dir bu10:). But who knows this trick ????

Jo