> so then I find a PCMCIA reader which takes the card,
> but I dont have any cable to go from that to a motherbd
> or I/o card. from what I've read so far, that looks like
> a cable to an IDE drive controller?
A PCMCIA card has to go in an appropriate slot; it can't be bridged to IDE
because there are too many possible functions and required support bits.
CompactFlash cards can be bridged directly, or accessed through a PCMCIA
interface as you describe, or using a USB device like the one I have here.
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)
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