Here's everything and more than what you'd want to know about the PCMCIA
standards. <http://www.pcmcia.org/pccard.htm>
The original 16 bit standard dates to 1990, stardard revised in 1995 to
add 32-bit bus mastering and was being actively changed up until 2001.
According to the FAQ Cardbus has now been superceded by a new PCMCIA
fostered stadard called "Express Card" and "Express Bus".
<http://www.expresscard.org/web/site/about.jsp> I hadn't heard of it
before but it's supposed to be appearing now or soon on a laptop near you.
Chuck Norcutt
Jez Cunningham wrote:
> Well I did buy it a long time ago, when I wanted to use a CF card in my
> hplx200 pocket pc. I bought a 15MB CF card for under $60 and $12 for the
> adaptor. Boy was I on the bleeding edge - the old 1MB SRAM PCMCIA card with
> lithium coin cell was obsolete now!
> If there's such a thing as a 16-bit adaptor then it's bound to be one. It
> does seem a lot slower than the USB2 CF reader but I haven't any
> measurements to confirm.
> thanks
> Jez
>
> On 9/14/06, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Depends if the "old" one is 16 or 32 bit. I think the renaming was
>>coincident with the change to 32 bit but don't know that for sure.
>>
>>Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>Jez Cunningham wrote:
>>
>>>I know that there was some sort of renaming and possibly a spec change
>>
>>from
>>
>>>PCMCIA to Cardbus, but for a CF card the adaptor is just a set of wires,
>>
>>no
>>
>>>electronics, n'est-ce pas? So replacing my old PCMCIA CF adaptor with a
>>>Cardbus version can't speed anything up can it?
>>>cheers
>>>Jez
>>>
>
>
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