Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Garrett D'Amore" <gdamore at sun.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
>>     
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> Isn't cardbus PCMCIA + DMA?
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No, its a full 32-bit PCI-like bus (with DMA) with backwards 
compatibility for PCMCIA.

    -- Garrett
> J?rg
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