On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 10:57:20PM -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
> Anyone know what those "compact flash" readers look like?  I have acquired
> a digital camera, and it would make my day if it were possible to copy these
> lovely jpeg images directly from the compact flash in the PCMCIA adapter
> over to, say, a floppy.  I know Mac and Windows machines "just see the disk",
> as does my Psion, as does my camera...

These cards act like either IDE drives -- when inserted into an adapter
wired for that mode, that plugs directly into your machine's IDE controller --
or IDE controllers, when you put them in a PCMCIA slot.

I consider the first type of adapter very, very much preferable.  To begin
with, you can boot from it...

I use only genuine SanDisk brand cards.  Almost everything else is
just a relabelled Hitachi card, and those are hideously buggy, particularly
in "drive" mode.  They're almost useful only as data-scramblers.  You can
get the SanDisk cards from buy.com at a pretty good price.

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
	"And where do all these highways go, now that we are free?"