Miscellaneous Notes: PDA Version Specific

This section applies to the PDA version of FreeOTFE only

If you intend using your encrypted volumes with both PDAs and PCs, please ensure that you initially create and format them using the PC version to ensure that they can be read by either system. If a volume is created on a PDA, your PDA will format it in a slightly different manner (i.e. it will be include additional, unused, information at the start of the partition), which will prevent your PC from reading it correctly - even though it works correctly with a PDA. Volume files created on a PC can be used freely with both PDAs and PCs.

When mounting a volume under the PDA version, if you have more than one cypher/hash driver combination which can be used to decrypt the volume in question, the first valid combination will be used. This is unlike the PC version, which will prompt you to select which combination you wish to use. If you wish the PDA version to use a specific cypher/hash driver implementation when mounting volumes, please remove all other cypher/hash drivers which implement the same cypher/hash. See FAQ relating to duplicate drivers.

To reduce the time taken for FreeOTFE4PDA to mount volumes, please see the FAQ "How can I speed FreeOTFE up when mounting my volumes?"

To reduce the amount of storage space FreeOTFE4PDA takes up on your PDA (i.e. its installed "footprint"), please see the FAQ "How can I reduce the amount of storage space FreeOTFE4PDA takes up when installed?"