Re: [Thinkpad] CF adapters, again

From: Tim Semen <tsservo_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon Jan 29 2007 - 07:15:46 EST

 
> > So what you are saying in that there is no difference
> between those CF
> > adapters that advertise themselves as CF readers and those that say
> > they are CF readers -and- writers?
>
> While I can't comment on that specifically, I can tell you
> that I'm currently looking at my $9.99 CompUSA brand USB2
> "9-in-1 Card Reader" Model number CR-V10-U29G and can vouch
> that this thing, does in fact, write to both CF and SD cards.
>
> I can even direct edit on the cards while they're in the "reader".
>
> I can't tell you about the other 7 as I don't have any,
> though I don't suspect that it's any different.
>
> It's got four slots [MD, CFI, CFII] [MS, MSPro, MSDuo] [SD,
> MMC] [SM]. That's probably a liberal interpretation of 9
> different cards, but it reads/writes everything I need it to.

Oh yea, it treats each slot as a separate removable media drive. So if you
have, say, a 2gb CF and a 1gb SD card in at the same time (like I do at the
moment) you can transfer information between the two. Best $10 I spent in a
long time.

Tim

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