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

[Chris Browder]

So I have read. It will do until I get the linear card in. 
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From: William Maloney <william.maloney.09 at cnu.edu>
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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:07:04 
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Subject: Re: [NTLK] [ATA Support] EPSON CompactFlash cards...not the best
 things to use

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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