The Jumpshot is a USB 1.1 device and much slower than USB 2.0. It also
never worked with any other brand of CF card. When I was looking for a
1GB card, I did research and found the Jumpshot included with the Lexar
card was only 1.1. I can only assume that they had a warehouseful of
them sitting around and some marketing genius decided that including a
free gadget that crippled the performance of the primary product would
somehow be a good idea.
Research also turned up the info that, although Lexar and Sandisk had
similar write speeds, the Lexars had much faster read speeds. I bought
and have been very happy with a Sandisk. By the way, other than for the
anomalous Jumpshot, any brand card reader works with any brand card. The
Lexar firewire reader was the champ last time I looked, but the
difference with cheap no-name readers is not big enough to matter.
I assume the failure with a 2GB card is a firmware issue, where the
Jumpshot didn't anticipate future sizes that large.
Moose
NSURIT@xxxxxxx wrote:
>Well, after slightly less than a year of super slow (22 minute) downloads
>from my 1 gig 40X CF card for the e-1.... After a day or so of being honked
>off, I went back and bought a
>Lexar multi-card reader. It works like a champ, taking about 2 minutes to
>download 1 gig of images. Now I remember why "free", seldom is. Bill Barber
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