If a PC card can be easily slid in the slot then it will do no harm. Whether it works or not with a CardBus card depends on whether the CardBus circuitry has been activated.
That said, I have used two different brands of PC cards for transferring data from SmartMedia and Secure Digital memory cards to my Mac and found they varied in spec, i.e., one was a very tight fit. Once again, nothing to do with CardBus, but the fact that PC card manufacturers and PC card cage manufacturers may have variances in their various products...and if you get two at the opposite end of the variances, things may not fit.
Cheers...
On Mar 3, 2005, at 10:11 PM, Daniel Palka wrote:
I definitely think you have this wrong.
On Mar 3, 2005, at 10:00 PM, Chris Jenkins wrote:
These differences are between type I and II cards. Cardbus has got nothing to do with it. It is NOT a PHYSICAL specification.
CJ
Daniel Palka wrote:
What are you all talking about? It has been discussed many times before. Most Cardbus cards have a thicker key, that must be shaved off in order to physically fit into a non Cardbus cage. They are NOT physically identical!!! There is a difference!
This image is the best I have ever seen that makes it quite clear and obvious. There is no debate, they are different: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/macdan/images/cbornot.jpg
This page describes the problems that may ensue when using a Cardbus card in a non Cardbus cage: http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro/Cardbus/Cardbus.html
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