[ILUG] Floppy adaptor for Compact Flash

[Sean Rima]

Originally to: Padraig Brady

Padraig Brady was alleged to have said to All
 something about [ILUG] Floppy adaptor for Compact Flash

 PB> Sean Rima wrote:
 PB>
 PB> > Originally to: All
 PB> >
 PB> > I am wondering if anyone has used one of these Floppy drives adpators
 PB> for
 PB> > Compact Flashes with Linux. Basically, from my understanding the thing
 PB> is put
 PB> > into the floppy drive, the CF into it and it _so_ say can be read by
 PB> the
 PB> floppy
 PB> > as a normal floppy drive.
 PB> >
 PB> > I need something to get pictures from a HP 210 Digi camera which
 PB> doesn't
 PB> appear
 PB> > to be supported by gPhoto and HP seem unwilling to send out how it is
 PB> > communicated with.
 PB> >
 PB> > Sean
 PB>
 PB>
 PB> USB CF readers are probably your best bet. Any reader that
 PB> supports the standard "USB storage" should work under Linux.
 PB>
 PB> Note CompactFlash cards have ide logic inbuilt. I.E. they actually
 PB> present themselves as ATAPI hard drives. So the easiest way
 PB> to go is to use a PASSIVE adapter to the IDE controller or
 PB> PCMCIA interface. This should be a simpler/cheaper solution
 PB> than a floppy drive adapter which would have to do some ACTIVE
 PB> mapping of the interfaces, and also the FDC would probably
 PB> introduce a bottleneck in data transfer. For e.g. lexar and
 PB> sandisk to name a couple are comming out with faster cards.
 PB> Lexar are naming them as 2X, 4X ... 16X, X being the equivalent
 PB> CD speed (I.E. 150KB/s), so max speed is now 2.4MB/s.
 PB> Sandisk have an ultra line that does 2.8MB/s
 PB> http://www.d-store.com/d-store/Sandisk/sandiskcf.htm
 PB>


Thanks for the URLs, I am going through each of them to see which would suit my 
needs best. Saying that I have just built a 486 with Win95 for the kids and may 
dig out the original software for the camera and see if I can get a port sniffer 
to scan the serial port to write my own linux backend for sane.

Sean

... MSDOS = MicroShafts Distribution of Sh.. ******* Try Linux ! *******

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