Need a driver: Intel PCMCIA Flash card

Type I cards are thinner than Type II which are thinner than Type III. If you look at at Type II card, you will notice that it is thinner on three sides than in the middle. The thin part, which acts as the card guide, retains the Type I size specifications. Thus, you can use a Type I card in a Type II slot. The types should not be confused with the PCMCIA electrical standards, which used a different (arabic) numbering system. Most "current" PCMCIA cards (such as an XJack modem or 3Com network card) are Type II and PCMCIA 2.0. Type I came out first, so many SRAM cards are Type I. For example, the first Poqet SRAM cards are Type I in size, but used a pre-PCMCIA 1.0 protocol. Later Poqets were PCMCIA 1.0 compliant. The HPLX 95 palmtop is PCMCIA 1.0 compliant (IIRC) and can read either Type I or Type II SRAM cards, but needs a driver for using Flash cards -- it came out a little later than the Poqet and is more compliant with the early PCMCIA standards. Windows through Win 98 can handle SRAM cards with a couple of device drivers (CARDDRV.SYS is one) installed. I forget the exact drivers needed, but just search in the Windows Help for SRAM to find the information. Win XP seems to have dropped support for SRAM cards. At least some Intel flash cards used a different format than other flash cards, such as SunDisk/SanDisk, so the two types are not compatible. Bob Message: 18 Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:24:36 -0400 From: Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> Subject: Re: Need a driver: Intel PCMCIA Flash card To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <434DA944.30707 at gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Ethan Dicks wrote: But aren't most of those Intel Series 2b cards Type I? I mean the ones that hold IOS images in slightly older Ciscos. As far as I can tell, they're just a bit thinner than your average ethernet/wireless/etc card. Peace... Sridhar