[ltp] PC-Card for SmartMedia Memory

[George Staikos]

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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Geert Janssen wrote:

> I purchased a Delkin Devices PCMCIA adapter for SmartMedia Memory cards.
> Both the 3.3V and 5V cards are supported (I believe up to 128MB). My TP770Z
> running a 2.2.10 kernel had no problem recognizing the new gadget as if it
> were an IDE ATA disk drive and uses /dev/hde1 for it.
> /etc/pcmcia/ide.opts allows you to configure the device and even have it
> automount (an msdos filesystem) upon detection.
> 
> My conclusion is that if you have a PCMCIA slot and a digital camera, go
> for these type of adapters; I also have a FlashPath floppy adapter but that's
> much slower and bothersome to use.
> 
> The Delkin Devices cards are of a good quality and very sharply priced.
> The same holds for their offering of SmartMedia cards. I got them through
> ProAdvantage (www.proadvantage.com).

   I think alot of these types of cards are supported with pcmcia-cs.  The old
Newton flash cards work well too.  There is a list of known-working and
known-not-working cards in the pcmcia-cs source tarball as well.  Good to see
a working hardware report.

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George Staikos 


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