Re: [Thinkpad] CF adapters, again

Just never count on them being 100% reliable, because they are not. Failure
is unpredictable in these devices... particularly with Compact Flash... the
flash drive is capable of sudden failure, and the reader can quit in the
middle of something. We have them brought into our shop with valuable data
in trouble frequently. They are no where close to the reliability of a hard
drive or CD burn.

RayBay

On 1/29/07, Tim Semen <tsservo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > > 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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