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I need one of these. Is this device available under any label in the
USA, or is there an equivalent from another manufacturer that is?

I really don't want to carry a separate USB 2.0 CF reader when I can
dock the card inside the laptop in the PCcard slot.
If I use one of the passive CF-PCMCIA adapters, I'm stuck with a
ridiculously-slow 1.2 MB/Sec transfer rate.


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When I bought my CF-PCMCIA adapter I had the option to buy one compatible
with CF Type II. Given the ridiculous price difference, and the fact that
CF-II cards are only a bit thicker, I went for the cheap option, figuring
out that I could file the adapter if I ever bought a microdrive later (which
I'm unlikely to do now, given the lower price of flash memory).

By the way, is PCMCIA really limited to 1.2 MB/sec? I read on www.pcmcia.org
that the PCMCIA i/f was running at 8Mhz on 8 or 16bits, which would give a
theoretical throughput of up to 16MB/s. Not as much as CardBus's 132MB/s,
but still plenty enough for CF cards. No?

"Mark B." <> wrote in message
news:...
> Apparently it's not available in the US, and I've never seen one under
> another label. I can't find a normal PC card reader that will read
> MicroDrives, let alone a 32-bit version.
>
> Mark
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> "Doug Warner" <> wrote in message
> news...
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> This item:
> http://www.dpreview.com/news/0305/03...32acardbus.asp
>
> I need one of these. Is this device available under any label in the
> USA, or is there an equivalent from another manufacturer that is?
>
> I really don't want to carry a separate USB 2.0 CF reader when I can
> dock the card inside the laptop in the PCcard slot.
> If I use one of the passive CF-PCMCIA adapters, I'm stuck with a
> ridiculously-slow 1.2 MB/Sec transfer rate.
>
>
> It's just a camera, not a religion!
>
> To reply, please remove one letter from each side of "@"
> Spammers are scammers, avoid them!
>
>

Stuart Middleton-White <> wrote:

>"Photon" <> wrote:
>
>> By the way, is PCMCIA really limited to 1.2 MB/sec? I read on www.pcmcia.org
>> that the PCMCIA i/f was running at 8Mhz on 8 or 16bits, which would give a
>> theoretical throughput of up to 16MB/s. Not as much as CardBus's 132MB/s,
>> but still plenty enough for CF cards. No?
>
>Quoting from CardBus System Architecture by Don Anderson/Tom Shanley
>published by Mindshare Inc. (http://www.mindshare.com) Page 20 (16-Bit
>PC Card Performance).
>
>"The maximum theoretical throughput associated with 16-bit PC Card
>transfers is 20MB/second. Most systems that employ 16-bit PC Cards
>interface the card sockets to the ISA bus. As a result, PC Card
>performance is governed by the ISA bus which has a maximum theoretical
>throughput of 8MB/second.
>
>[techical details omitted]...This yields a transfer rate of 5.33Mbytes
>per second."
>
>It is important to note that the above figures are theoretical (just
>as CardBus/USB 2.0/Firewire rates are). In addition CF cards appear as
>"ATA Disks" on the PCMCIA bus further limiting speed.
>
>The end result is that most PCMCIA interfaces can only transfer data
>to/from ATA Disk devices at around 1.25Mbytes/second.
>
>The CardBus adapter mentioned at the start of this thread still only
>claims a rate of 5Mbytes/second. Fast USB 2.0/Firewire readers exceed
>this rate--but not by much, although this seems to be limited by the
>CF cards themselves. Rob Galbraith recently achieved a rate of
>7956Kbytes/second (7.8Mbytes/sec) with the new Sandisk Ultra 1Gb in a
>Microtech Firewire reader.

The Aska CF32A PDF http://www.aska-corp.co.jp/e-pdf/ecf32.pdf states:
" - High CF transfer rate - up to PIO Mode-4 supported (16.7MB/S)"
so it may be able to run with the fastest CF cards.

Also, Aska is the manufacturer of the Tripper branded storage boxes.
I've emailed insidecomputer.com, begging then to carry the CF32A as
well.


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Doug Warner <> wrote:

> The Aska CF32A PDF http://www.aska-corp.co.jp/e-pdf/ecf32.pdf states:
> " - High CF transfer rate - up to PIO Mode-4 supported (16.7MB/S)"
> so it may be able to run with the fastest CF cards.

I got my figure of 5Mbytes/sec from the link (which I read some time
ago BTW) the original poster provided.

> Also, Aska is the manufacturer of the Tripper branded storage boxes.
> I've emailed insidecomputer.com, begging then to carry the CF32A as
> well.

Again from the link.

"UPDATE 12/May/03: We have managed to contact the manufacturer who has
unfortunately confirmed that this is a Japan domestic market only
product, they have no plans to export it. Which is a shame, lets hope
another manufacturer with international distribution can realize the
potential of this product."

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