On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:54:12AM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > USB 1.1 reader devices were fine when the average card capacity was > 16-64Mbytes. With 1G and larger cards becoming the norm, they're no > longer useful. A good 8-in-1 USB card reader (I use a Belkin) now > costs on the order of $15-30, so it's not an enormous expense. > > Godfrey
That's fine if it's the reader that is the problem. In my case it's my laptop computer that's limited to USB 1.1, so at present I have to live with USB 1.1 speeds (or use the PCMCIA CF adapter, which isn't really any faster). While the computer does have firewire, it's a 4-pin (unpowered) socket, so I can't use my Lexar firewire CF reader. I don't know if the PCMCIA socket accepts the faster cardbus devices; if it does, I could probably get some improvement going that route. Failing that, there are third-party devices that inject power into a firewire connection (either from a USB socket or a separate wallwart).
