bieling@terra.es wrote:
Whatever you plug in the USB, as long as it behaves as a standard USB mass-storage device, it will be ok. A USB-CF reader presents the CF to the computer as a standard USB mass- storage device.
I'm using a USB card reader which supplies it's own power. It supports 12 different media sizes and supplies 3 more USB connectors. $20 at Tiger Direct.
I think it provides access to more than one media card at a time along with any USB media. This could potentially offer access to a large amount of media storage. Of course there are the limitations in 8 bit ProDOS environments but the GS could use whatever is left as HFS storage. It might also be possible to write some clever rom code to swap alternate partitions. Letting the drive act like large removable floppy drives. What one would do with all that space is a whole other issue.
It could also allow users to take advantage of the smaller sized (in memory) cards which should be getting very cheap. For example, I have an 8 mb card from a digital camera from when we replaced it for a larger version.
Cheers, Mike T