From: Paul Guyot (pguyot_at_kallisys.net)
Date: Sun Sep 08 2002 - 13:58:56 PDT
À (At) 16:42 -0400 8/09/02, Victor Rehorst écrivait (wrote) :
>The Newton is only designed to provide 5V and 12V to PC Cards. If your
>card is 3.3V, and you insert it into the Newton and it feeds 5V to the
>card, there's an excellent chance that your card will turn into a little
>metal paperweight. What I'm trying to say is:
>
>PUTTING A 3.3V PC CARD INTO YOUR NEWTON WILL PROBABLY DESTROY IT. DON'T
>DO IT.
>
>Ahem. Yes.
The eMate doesn't deliver 12V. And I think that at least the Voyager
(2.1 models) can deliver 3.3V and 5V.
And the APIs are there for NewtonOS 2.x.
Of course, most software including ATA Support doesn't take this into
account. But I'm going to add that now that you mention it. At least,
I'll avoid frying the card and if I can operate at 3.3V, it will save
some battery.
I just wish I knew how to be told by the Newton at which voltage it
can operate (since the eMate cannot do 12V, this should be present
somehow).
Paul
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