nick thompson wrote:

> Hi all,
>  I went to compusa to get a cf card for my new z50, and I noticed that 
> they carry a 4gb hitachi microdrive. First of all, is it compatible 
> with the ibm microdrives? It looks to be the same, cf II or whatever. 
> Do these cards take any more battery than a regular cf card?
>
> thanks
>
> Nick
>
> "All unix, all the time."
>
> http://npt.ath.cx
>
Hitachi bought IBM's disk drive operation, inluding the microdrives. 

However, those bigger ones (over 1 GB) could be problematic - I have 
one, and it is very weird in how it is recognized (or not) by various 
computers I have, including a Mobile Pro 790 that does not see it at all 
with its WinCe software in the CF slot.  A MoPro 800, that I got running 
for a little while with NetBSD 3.0 could "see" it when attached via USB 
flash card reader, but got errors.

HTH,
Rory