Re: [Thinkpad] CF adapters, again

Been using SD adn CF cards for a couple of years now .. dayly in my
various digicams as well as my PDA. To data had no reliability issues.

However, my initial readers were the $10 variety and seemed to transfer
at USB 1 rate.

I then purchased "CardBus 32" versions of dedicated CF and SD readers
from Delkin (using Sandisk Ultra-II cards) ... and had seen a very
noticeable improvement in transfer rate as I recall (its been a couple
of years now). So I am not sure that the CF reader is just a pass thru
pin-to-pin as was suggested in an earlier post.

As an aside, I had an HP PortablePLUS 'laptop' PC, purchased in the
mid-80s ... and had a grand total of 5MB of ROM and SRAM storage ...
over the ten years that I had this ROM-RAM DOS box ... never experienced
any problems with solid state I/O devices (except the damage to my
wallet ... $2900 for 3MB expansion).

Frank K-F
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RayBay wrote:

>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.
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>RayBay
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>On 1/29/07, Tim Semen <tsservo@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>So what you are saying in that there is no difference
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>>>between those CF
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>>>>adapters that advertise themselves as CF readers and those that say
>>>>they are CF readers -and- writers?
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>>>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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Received on Mon Jan 29 10:05:48 2007