I actually, John have both the Ibm Microdrive and the Tosheva. I find that the IBM one has quite a drain on the battery whereas the tosheva doesn't seem to affect the battery quite as much. My gps maps are on a tosheva 5 gb microdrive and I also have one I had bought about a year before that for my books. Let me tell you one thing. With my gps program, sometimeswhen I turn the Braille Note on, the microdrive causes the bn to do a hard reset, and sometime in the middle of doing something it will reset too. Now with my 5 gb microdrive with the books on it, I don't experience this problem. I also have the 1 gb ibm microdrive which was sold to me instead of the 5 gb microdrive by some computer store in Chicago which I will never go back to. Anyway that little one never gives me any problems and i have my backups on that one. I personally like the microdrives because they just simply hold more. I'd say I have Oh, probably 100 books if you want to count how web Braille divides everything up into volumes on my microdrive. and I think they are tremendous. Mary Ellen who still loves her Braille Note.
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Mattioli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Braillenote List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 2:55 PM Subject: [Braillenote] External memory on PCMCIA or CF cards > Greetings, > > I am considering getting a large CF or PCMCIA memory card and am > considering a microdrive. I have a few questions: > > 1. I know that some people have used the Toshiba Microdrive (PCMCIA > card) with the BN but am wondering if they've experience any trouble > doing this. Also wondering if it has had a major impact on battery > life. I assume it has some impact but wondering how much. > > 2. I'm noticing several products available that are microdrives on a > Compactflash card. These seem to indicate that they're type II CF > cards. Does BN work with these cards? I just saw a 2.2GB CF microdrive > for something like $180 on the net. I'm assuming that these cards will > draw less power then the Toshiba Microdrives because they're newer, but > still draw more than, say, a 1GB flash memory card. > > Any infor on what's known to work would be greatly appreciated. > > John > > > John R. Mattioli, Jr. > Senior Software Engineer > Kurzweil Educational Systems, Inc. > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > >
