8 Apr
2002
8 Apr
'02
8:21 a.m.
Ethan Dicks said:
IBM has things like the "MicroDrive", but modern PCMCIA disks tend
to specifically be "CompactFlash Type III" - you can get CF->PCMCIA
adapters cheap, but you'll probably have to alter them mechanically
to provide clearance for the HDA of a MicroDrive. I do not know
the physical height off the top of my head, but the PS-2/E card is
"quad type-I, dual type-II" - meaning that if you found an old
PCMCIA hard disk that was Type-III, you'd have a mechanical interference
problem. Dunno about MicroDrives.
I have a 1GB microdrive -- it's a CF type II device. You can get a
CF-II->PCMCIA-I adapter that will let you plug the microdrive into a pcmcia
slot. It shows up a as PCMCIA ATA device...pretty cool.
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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