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