Matt Dainty wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 14:34, Andy Ruhl wrote:
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>>Note that it
>>might still work if you use a CF card reader in the PCMCIA slot...
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>ICBW but I thought that CF and PCMCIA are basically the same technology
>such that a CF->PCMCIA adapter is merely altering the connector.
>Certainly the two adapters I have were so cheap I can't believe they
>have any IDE/ATA logic in them.
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>Matt
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That's how Win98 and Linux and FreeBSD seem to see the CF slot in my 
Thinkpad X20 - as just another PC Card slot (to use the "correct" term , 
altho I wll concede that the predecessor "PCMCIA"  term is more clearcut 
as to what is being dealt with - "PC card" is what I have always 
generally called the cards that plug into ISA/EISA/VLB/PCI/AGP/etc 
slots  ;-).  Also, Win98 always identifies CF cards and my IBM 340 MB 
Microdrive (which came with a Casio digital camera) as "IDE" drives, and 
yet I can use them interchangably in a Jornada 720/728 (well, not the 
Microdrive since it needs Type 2 CF slot) and NEC Mobilepro 780/790.  
There don't seem to be any distinctions.

That's not to say I have the faintest, foggiest as to how one of those 
Seagate microdrives would be handled.  Maybe you could find out by 
contacting Seagate tech support, or even searching their support website 
for definitive specs.

FWIW

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