[ltp] Handy little device (& cheap!)

[David Tansey]

Sarvin,

I just bought a palm t3. i want to have access to an SD card. what
sd-to-cf adapter did you use? it's been reliable? no special drivers?

i am running ubuntu on an x40 so i have things pretty up to date. 

thanks!
david

On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 22:13 -0800, Sarvin Coachbuilder wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:03:55 -0700 (MST), "M. Leo Cooper"
> <thegrendel@theriver.com> said:
> > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Crispian Thorne wrote:
> > 
> > > I was looking for a PCMCIA compact flash reader to replace the Smart
> > > Media one I had been using as I have upgraded my digital camera to one
> > > thet uses CF when I came across this little number
> > > http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=778454&sku=I74-1834.
> > 
> > Yes, a flash card reader is more or less plug-and-play with the latest
> > Linux
> > distros. Works fine.
> > 
> > Funny that you should bring this up, though. I've been wondering . . .
> > 
> > With some shops deep-discounting some of the less popular varieties of
> > memory cards, namely MMC, would it maybe be worthwhile picking up a few
> > of these, cheap, just as a means of backing up files? I got a multi-card
> > type card reader to use with my camera's flash cards, but it'll read 8
> > different formats of cards.
> > 
> > I know that camera-type memory cards don't have all the memory management
> > circuitry of flash drives (USB thumb drives), but what are the actual
> > disadvantages of using them for, say, backup of files off a hard drive?
> > Shorter rewrite life, maybe?
> 
> I'm using an IBM X30 with the cf card reader built in. In addition to
> the cf card reader I have added a cf to SD reader so now I have an CF
> and SD card reader built in to the laptop. I'm not positive but I think
> that mmc doesn't have the through put of other, newer types of card
> memory.