[NTLK] [ATA Support] EPSON CompactFlash cards...not the best things to use

[William Maloney]

Better than the MicroDrives by far. Those are REALLY slow. Plus they suck
up your battery like nobody's business.

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Chris Browder <kcfoxie at gmail.com> wrote:

> So I got an 8MB Epson CF card with my MP2k.
>
> It's not very fast. Infact an MP3 loaded onto it will skip, where it plays
> fine off my existing 4MB Linear flash card.
>
> I'm waiting on the ATA driver to complete a journal recovery (common when
> you move a soup from it to another store that's over a few hundred KB in
> size)... once it's done I'm likely making a backup of the critical internal
> apps to one of my many 2MB cards and moving its apps to the 4MB card I
> have.
>
> I splurged, Merry Christmas Newton... you have a 24MB Linear Flash card
> coming.
>
> Oh, hey, it just finished the rebuild...haha.. only took 16 minutes.
>
> Chris
>
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