[NTLK] Linear Flash Card Questions

[William Maloney]

Are these ATA Flash cards essentially an IBM MicroDrive?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Blank-96MB-PCMCIA-ATA-Flash-Memory-Card-for-Laptop-Telecom-equipment-industrial-/300685075820?pt=US_USB_Flash_Drives&hash=item46023a256c

Already used one of those. Tons of space but SLOW. The smaller 256MB
CF card is way better but it keeps having hiccups and makes typing a
bit annoying. Kills the responsiveness.

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Dan <dan at dbdigitalweb.com> wrote:
> I think you are referring to linear flash not ATA FLASH which is what
> William asked about as I have never seen a 4GB linear flash card.  Only
> 32MB or perhaps 64MB. :)
>
> It is true that there isn't a speed difference between sizes of Linear
> flash cards (although the larger the card the more heap they take...it
> does not actually slow down the newt).
>
> ATA FLASH on the other hand is totally different and is much slower,
> especially with the larger cards.  If I recall correctly you want to get
> the smallest ATA flash card you can and definitely stay away from the
> gigabyte sizes.  While they do work, they are very very slow.  I recall
> someone on the list using a large microdrive flash card and it took all
> day to load a few MP3 songs on it.
>
> -Dan
>
> On 8/29/2012 6:13 PM, Bob Carls Dudney wrote:
>> I've not noticed any significant differences in performance whether
>> using 2, 4 or up to 32 MB cards.
>>
>> BCD
>>
>> On 29/08/12, William Maloney wrote:
>> |
>>> Can anyone vouch for a good CF card size to use on an MP2000 that will
>>> not freeze things down too much? Its far better than what I had before
>>> (4GB) but Newton "thinks" too much when doing basic tasks like word
>>> processing.
>
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