John Francis wrote:
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).
If it's new enough to have USB, it likely has a Cardbus slot. But I've
found that even PC Card CF adaptors are much faster than USB 1.1 (I use
a Sandisk PC Card adaptor myself, PC Card is PCMCIA with an easier
acronymn).
-Adam
