On Sep 12, 2006, at 8:55 AM, ryan brooks wrote: >> Interesting. Is it not also true that the CF to PC card adapters are >> basically passive adaption? The PCMCIA specification is very >> adaptable. >> > > Yes, it is not true. PCMCIA is more like ISA, so an adapter would > have > electronics.
"Yes, it is not true" is an ambiguous response. "Yes, it is true" or "No, it is not true" would be clear and unambiguous. I disagree that "PCMCIA is more like ISA" in that ISA stands for the name of a specific connection protocol where PCMCIA is the name of an association that produced a number of protocol specifications ... but the first rev of PCMCIA specifications did share a lot in common with the ISA. Later specs on PCMCIA are much broader and allow for significantly more hardware protocol adaption, and some part of them is much more akin to the PCI specification. But as to whether a CF->PCMCIA adapter *can* be passive or not, I'm still not sure. I might have one around here somewhere that I can take apart to find out for sure ... If I really get hot to know (low probability). ;-) Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
