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05-12-2006, 08:37 PM
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Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Rochester, NY, USA
Distribution: Salckware ver 10.1 - 14.1, Debian too.
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PCMCIA / Cardbus Speed.
Here's the scenario. I have a USB 2.0 hard drive connected to one of my linux machines. The one machine (AMD K6-2, runs linux) has USB 1.1 ports on it and File transfers are SLOOOOOOOOOOWWWW. It has PCMCIA slots so I was thinking of getting a USB 2.0 card for it. I'm not sure what the speed limits are for PCMCIA / Cardbus and what they rely on. I also have an older laptop (486, runs linux) which does not have any USB ports. I've thought about putting one in that too. A CF drive in the 486 hdparm's to 1.47 MB/sec. Suggestions?
Thanks.
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05-12-2006, 08:55 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Seymour, Indiana
Distribution: Distribution: RHEL 5 with Pieces of this and that.
Kernel 2.6.23.1, KDE 3.5.8 and KDE 4.0 beta, Plu
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This link should help you out. http://www.pcmcia.org/faq.htm
On the older laptop check to see if it 16bit pcmcia (I forget the exact name, I think they called it creditcard or something) or 32bit pcmcia pccard.
Brian1
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05-12-2006, 09:18 PM
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Perfect! Thank you. Don't know how I missed that one in Google. Duh! 
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