Re: [NTLK] Compact Flash

From: Thomas Cherry (jceaser_at_mac.com)
Date: Mon Apr 01 2002 - 11:15:15 EST


It seems to be slow (access times) and you can only use 4 megs unless you
pay for the drivers. What gets me is the cost of the drivers, about 50 USD
if I did the conversion right from EU to $. I hope I am wrong on that.

on 4/1/02 10:48 AM, Richard Barraclough at richard_at_sigma.ndo.co.uk wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just been reading about using compact flash cards in the Newton (with
> PCMCIA adapter).
>
> As you no doubt know the driver software is in beta, and sounds like it is
> very unreliable.
>
> Does anybody have any experience using compact flash that could make a case
> either for or against using it?
> * How reliable is it?
> * What card sizes can be used?
>
> Thanks,
> Richard.

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