On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, danilo wrote: > Alle 10:06, marted́ 6 aprile 2004, Kevin Thornsberry ha scritto: > > OK. Thanks. > > > > My notebook has 2 PCMCIA slots and USB 1.1. I probably should be asking > > which of those two is faster. > > PCMCIA should be faster, there are PCMCIA card with FireWire / USB 2.0 ports > on them, so PCMCIA must be AT LEAST fast as an USB 2.0 port (420MB/s IIRC)
There are two forms of PC Card slots, both of which use the same physical slot. PCMCIA cards are based on the old 16-bit ISA bus (long since retired in desktop PCs) and this is what PCMCIA/CompactFlash readers are usually based on. Cardbus is a 32-bit slot equivelent to a PCI card and those are much more performant. There are Cardbus CompactFlash readers that are as fast as a firewire reader, but they'll cost you much more than a PCMCIA one (about $50 instead of $15). I believe that Delkin makes/sells these in the US. The PC Card Firewire/USB 2.0 cards are Cardbus based, not PCMCIA. alex
