Rory O"C wrote:
> 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
> 
Wow. Now I see there are 4 gig cf II and 8 gig cards that might be cf 
III if there is such a thing. I mean, obviously I would like as much 
storage as I can get, but I don't want to spend more money just to find 
out that 2 gigs is the highest the z50 can work with. Anyone have any 
thoughts? And, does a microdrive take more battery than a regular cf card?

Nick

"All unix, all the time."

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