From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jul 22 21:25:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6F8337B400 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:25:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thought.holo.org (w120.z064002057.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.2.57.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54B0743E7B for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:25:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.int.holo.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6N4P5jV064681; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:25:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:25:05 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brian W. Buchanan" X-X-Sender: brian@thought.int.holo.org To: Tony Chang Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pcmcia card reader In-Reply-To: <20020723001420.E6100-100000@ip134-053-131-078.s131.muohio.edu> Message-ID: <20020722212102.H63571-100000@thought.int.holo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I believe that most (all?) such devices have virtually no real logic on them, and merely provide a little hardware "glue" between the PCMCIA and the flash. The flash itself even provides the CIS manufacturer/card strings; they vary from CF to CF, but not from adapter to adapter. I've used several brands. They all worked identically. Brian On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Tony Chang wrote: > I'm thinking about getting a PCMCIA compact flash card reader > and was wondering what brands people recommend for 4.6-RELEASE? > > Should they all pretty much work or are there any 'gotchas' that > I should know about? > > Thanks, > Tony > > ---------- > Tony Chang > w@muc.muohio.edu > 211 N. College > Oxford, OH 45056 > (513)-664-4309 > > http://www.aypwip.org > > "Every day all people judge all other people. The questions is > whether we judge wisely." > --Han Fei-tzu from Xenocide by Orson Scott Card > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message