Ben A L Jemmett wrote: > > > 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. hmmm. I usually wait for mthbds to get cheap, and have one coming I got for 30$, which is the first I seen at the price which has USB. so then, there is a usb cable from that to this 'Smartcard' reader?? Seems like I seen USB mentioned on the mandrake list. anyone know if it's been done with dos? To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
