Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 21:40:08 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] 16 Bit PC Card USB
At 06:15 AM 30/05/2004 -0700, you wrote: >Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 15:12:56 +0200 (METDST) >From: Jochen Frieling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] 16 Bit PC Card USB > > > > I don't think it exists. > > > > You can use a Parallel-USB Cable. > > > > http://www.mcpb.com/html/usb.parll.cbl.html > >Sorry, but this one converts in the wrong direction. To use it, you >already have to have a USB port and then you can connect parallel devices. > >I've done hours of searching but couldn't find a PCMCIA USB controller >either. It's too bad that folks mix up the designations and use PCMCIA for >Cardbus. Else there would be a slight chance of finding the needle in the >haystack---if it existed. Hehe it gets even worse ... IIRC, PCMCIA is actually the association that sets the standard so technically anything set by the PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) is a PCMCIA standard. The cards that go into laptops are called PC-Cards of which there are the plain old 16 bit PC-Card sockets, CardBus, ZoomedVideo and so-on (actually those are all that I can think of but anyway ...), they're ALL PCMCIA cards. See www.pcmcia.org/about.htm if you want the history ... they also oversee the SmartMedia standard amongst other things (so I guess you could say a SmartMedia card IS a PCMCIA card but that'd just add to the confusion ... hehe). Now as for the USB thingo, there was discussion maybe a year or so ago on this list about the topic and IIRC the conclusion reached was that 16 bit PC card simply didn't have the capability for USB. I'm not sure if this was supposed to be literal or an analogy but the discussion went along the lines that the 16 bit PC card interface is equivalent to an ISA bus and a CardBus interface is similar to PCI in the way it works ... from what I understand, you can't get USB host controllers hooked up to an ISA bus. It's a real pitty ... it'd be real nice if the little L50/70's could have USB ... ah well ... - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | | ICQ: 31756092 | Libretto IRC channel #Libretto on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
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