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New MessagePCMCIA on IO (modified 0 times) turbowsr
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I read thru and no one had a positive outlook on this. But I got to thinking. I have this Harddrive case that plugs into my PC Card slot on my laptop. (this is more assumption than that I really know) Since Harddrive is read/write, data flows both ways. K, now if reverse the flow, Would it work? Anyone know?

ie. Connect the Harddrive side to the IDE connector on IO, then the PC Card could be adapted with pins (or what ever we can find) to act as a PCMCIA/CardBus Slot.

What do ya think?

04-09-2002 17:48:05

New MessageRE:PCMCIA on IO (modified 0 times) turbowsr
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Oh, and I just remembered. I was looking to get a Casio PDA E 125. While looking at hacks for this, I found someone that had a Compact Flash to PCMCIA adaptor. The Casio has a CF slot. The Ipaq from Compaq has a sleeve for either CF or PCMCIA, so this person made an adaptor for their Casio. I will try to find the site and list it here, maybe this could help.

Thanks.

04-09-2002 17:52:24

New MessageRE:PCMCIA on IO (modified 0 times) turbowsr
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Here's a link to get you there>

http://198.95.255.5/NonCGI/Forum2/HTML/000093.html

My HTML is rusty, so just cut N' paste

04-09-2002 18:06:41

New MessageRE:PCMCIA on IO (modified 0 times) redwood
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rust never sleeps...

http://198.95.255.5/NonCGI/Forum2/HTML/000093.html


Hint: Put a backslash in front of a link to make it clickable, see 'Help'

04-10-2002 10:28:25

New MessageRE:PCMCIA on IO (modified 0 times) turbowsr
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Tanks Redwood,
I could have looked it up. I even have a 3000 page HTML book. But it was there, I was here. :)
04-10-2002 15:02:05

New MessageRE:PCMCIA on IO (modified 0 times) Finatronics
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Hate to burst your bubble...
The CF slot in the IO takes advantage of the transparent IDE mode of the CF card. In this mode (set by a certain pin being tied high or low, I believe) the CF card is electrically equivelent to the IDE bus. This means that the CF card can be connected _directly_ to the IDE bus without requiring any special circuitry. Unfortunately, I HIGHLY doubt ANY non-IDE CF card can make use of this ability. Furthermore, even if they could, the IDE (and thus CF) bus on the IO does not have any "card services" to allow the computer to detect and load drivers for devices which aren't IDE. Notice that when CF cards are not in transparent IDE mode, the pins are treated entirely differently from when they're in "bus mode".

I do not think this is possible without some additional active circuitry (which might be why there's the pads for an IC under the CF slot, I don't know). Maybe you should purchase one of those Hotswappable CF - IDE adapters and see about the specs of the chip they use...

Eric

04-12-2002 12:08:22

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