On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:23:17PM +0100, Peter Graf wrote: > Hi Claude, > > >Any chance to get USB (for digital still camera for instance, as even fast > >RS232 is very slow) ? > > Our QDOS/SMSQ software development shortage practically prohibits to work > on USB host hardware. And even the hardware is a bit difficult because of > the lack of suitable USB *host* chips.
in theory USB interfaces on ISA do exist for which Linux drivers are available. In practice better check whether they can fallback to PIO or require DMA. > I already have a *fast* hardware solution for digital cameras and Q40/Q60 > (Much faster than USB!) Which is a CompactFlash adaptor. > > To read digicam pictures from CompactFlash, we'd need FAT filesystem > support for QDOS/SMSQ. we have FAT fs support in SMSQ, are you saying it didn't work with the CompactFlash? Bye Richard
