22 Apr
2012
22 Apr
'12
7:47 a.m.
CF cards has an interesting point: They are ATA/ATAPI compatible. Right
of the box. You have a decades old computer using an IDE/ATA/ATAPI/Whatever
drive, you just pop it out and connects a CF card. I do that in my MSX
computers and an old XT I have lying round. Also, my HP16500C which has a
2.1 GB drive (HP original! :D) will receive a CF card as soon as I can
fiddle with that. I have a HP16505 prototype analyser that uses SCSI, but
I'll try to find an adapter and change it too.
SD cards has an adapter to CF pinout. They are cheaper and easier to
found. I got a 16GB Sandisk card for my Dreamcast (yep...there is an adapter
for dreamcast and I use almost no GDs these days) for R$ 35, which is around
Us$ 15 in Brazil. Try to buy an 16GB CF in Brazil...the price skyrockets. it
is cheaper to buy the SD->CF adapter AND the SD than the CF.
On the other side, some devices has benefitis in using a serial
interface media. The Dreamcast uses the SD card connected directly to the
serial port, it would take some circuitry to connect a CF into that port.
The SD uses just some wires and a clever software
One of the things I'm interested in doing in the future, is creating a
SCSI to SD interface, but I believe it will take some ages...
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Shoppa, Tim" <tshoppa at wmata.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: one good ripoff deserves another / Iomega Zip's
Why not the SD
card? Cheaper, smaller and easy to interface! :)
My gut feeling is that compact flash will live a little longer in terms of
being able to get interface hardware a decade into the future. But I could
be wrong and SD might have more legs (certainly fewer contacts). And as
you point out the serial interface to a SD card is very straightforward so
I think you have a good point!
Tim.