Re: These new mass storage cards

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Ed Eastman <noone@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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: Forty Two wrote:
: > Does anybody have any experience with these? I find them both
: > intriguing.
: I have both as well.  I love the CFFA card.  They are small, compact,
: light and travel well from computer to computer. (I won 3 of them.) but
: I can't find any CF media that _works_ in it.  I have tried Sandisk and
: any other brands large and dinky capacity, newer and older and I have
: not found one that works.  I am using the "IBM Microdrive" 340Meg
: mechanism instead in my CFFA and it works very well so I know the cards
: work.  The "IBM Microdrive" is a CF size hard drive and it is great
: except for an audible high pitched whir.
:
: I like the microdrive a little better as it seems faster than the CFFA.
:    But I don't like to carry it around as it feels a bit more impact
: unfriendly when wielding it.

The MicroDrive IF card is capable of using CF cards with an
adapter, which I now supply with them if requested. Also, ///SHH
is developing a CF adapter with IDE ports so you can use 2 CF
cards, or 1 CF and 1 hard drive. Master/slave style. Oops, maybe
I wasn't supposed to mention that yet. Sorry Joachim.  :o)

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