James Carlson wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
>> PCMCIA stops at 20 Mbps (b for bits). Its not performant. USB 1.1
>> maxes out at 11 Mbps. USB 2.0 goes a lot faster (480 Mbps I think.)
>>
>> If it were possible to eliminate pcata it would eliminate quite a lot of
>> complex code. I've not looked seriously into this -- are folks using
>> pcmcia CF slots? Cardbus, PCI, or USB (2.0) are all vastly faster.
>>
>
> Yes. I have a CF adapter that I use on PCMCIA with a laptop, but not so
> often. The desktop machine has a USB-connected CF adapter that works
> just as well, and SD is more common now anyway.
>
Yeah, everyone uses USB for this stuff mostly these days, and SDcard is
a lot more prevalent. (CF mostly lost the format wars, despite being
simpler, and in many ways faster. I think the physical form factor --
which is inappropriate for mobile devices like phones -- is probably
what killed it in the long run.)
So would you complain if pcata were to go away? Can you use a USB based
CF reader on said laptop (or perhaps a cardbus version, which would fit
in the same slot, and be a lot faster?)
> I also have a pcwl (Orinoco Gold) card that I use on my laptop
> occasionally because the built-in interfaces tend to stink royally.
>
Yeah, I think there are still a lot of folks using pcwl. Which is kinda
unfortunate because the driver lacks some important workarounds/fixes
for some errata. (Which mostly hurt the miniPCI version of pcwl....
badly enough that I consider miniPCI Prism 2.5 cards to be completely
unusable with the pcwl driver. At one point I was going to try to fix
this, but I've since mostly lost interest since I don't use my one
laptop that had one of these cards anymore -- it was a Tadpole SPARCLE.)
- Garrett
