[ltp] Handy little device (& cheap!)

[Eben King]

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Sarvin Coachbuilder wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:03:55 -0700 (MST), "M. Leo Cooper"
> <thegrendel@theriver.com> said:
> > 
> > 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'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.

>From what I understand from the Sharp Zurus newsgroups and mailing list, a 
MMC card has one data line and a CF card has four.  The Zaurus only uses 
one, so the difference is irrelevant for it, but your particular CF reader 
may use more than one.

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