On 01/ 6/10 09:50 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > 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.
Not true. Almost ALL professional DSLR camera use CF to this day, and it is very much faster than SD. SD took over the consumer devices since speed did not matter for those devices. A 2010 Nikon or Canon (or pick your brand) pro camera ALL use CF UDMA devices. Neal > 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 >
