> From: Michael Ting Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 1:16 > The problem is with the PCMCIA slot. > > Get a USB2 card reader, and it'll improve it dramatically, even using > Microdrives. Using a PCMCIA slot, it also took me about 8 mins to d/l a > 1GB microdrive, however, with a USB2 reader, 512 probably takes a mins > or less. -----> snip
> Definitely don't need a FW reader (although i've never tried one) cause > in theory the bottleneck is the card read speed. I do not understand this last statement. You and many other persons have shown that there is a big difference between the CF readers. I know about the PCMCIA slot speed limitation but that is why the FW readers are so fast since they bypass the slot and plug directly into the laptop or desktop computer. Bertho =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
