Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 05:52:00 -0500
From: John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] [lib] PCMCIA-> CF card adaptors...

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 01:45:26 -0700, you wrote:

>Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 04:36:53 -0400
>From: "Lines, Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [lib] PCMCIA-> CF card adaptors...
>
>Try http://www.linux-consulting.com/Flash/Adaptor.txt for a list of
>possibilities
>
>Most interesting could be the PCEngines one.  I've asked for height
>specifications...
>
>Nick.

I love the idea since a person can keep three or four drives- one for
each operfating system and he doesn't have to mess with dual booting
or have one mess up the other. Plus flash drives are so much more
shock resistant and much faster, easier to carry around, etc.

Compact flash adapters are all over the web and all I've seen are
small enough to fit. One of the problems I have with just a CF adapter
is that you are pretty much limited to 1 gig for now (unless there are
higher capacity out now) . However with a type III adapter you can use
CF plus all the type I, II and III cards which go up to 5 gig and they
really don't use much more power- maybe 3 times as much as CF if you
pick one of the Type II hard drives. A person can get lower power by
picking a 2 gig Type III flash card or 1 gig CF (in a Type II adapter
card) and gain in shock resistance if they wanted to. I've been
looking at the Adtron type III and the specs on that one show the
adapter is about 9.6mm high. It can be made thinner.

John



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