Alle 14:35, marted� 6 aprile 2004, alex wetmore ha scritto: > On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, danilo wrote: > > Alle 10:06, marted� 6 aprile 2004, Kevin Thornsberry ha scritto: > > > OK. Thanks. > > > > > > My notebook has 2 PCMCIA slots and USB 1.1. I probably should be > > > asking which of those two is faster. > > > > PCMCIA should be faster, there are PCMCIA card with FireWire / USB 2.0 > > ports on them, so PCMCIA must be AT LEAST fast as an USB 2.0 port > > (420MB/s IIRC) > > There are two forms of PC Card slots, both of which use the same > physical slot. PCMCIA cards are based on the old 16-bit ISA bus (long > since retired in desktop PCs) and this is what PCMCIA/CompactFlash > readers are usually based on. Cardbus is a 32-bit slot equivelent to > a PCI card and those are much more performant. There are Cardbus > CompactFlash readers that are as fast as a firewire reader, but > they'll cost you much more than a PCMCIA one (about $50 instead of > $15). I believe that Delkin makes/sells these in the US. > > The PC Card Firewire/USB 2.0 cards are Cardbus based, not PCMCIA. > > alex
aahh, ok thank you for your explanation!! ciao Danilo.
