On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 11:17:24AM +0000, anup neelanath wrote: > Hi, > Let me intoduce myself first. I am Anup from India. I am looking in the > net > for buying a digital camera - one with compact flash card. I got ur mail > address from one of the replies u had given for a query on compact flash > card. I hope u will be able to answer my query..
This is a mailing list for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. (see www.debian.org). Your question doesn't depend on windoze software, so I know the answer, but this isn't really the right mailing list for it. > I have a desktop PC - windows, and no USB port. The cameras now adays > come > with USB cables. I saw that the CF card is IDE compatible. Does it mean that > I can directly connect the CF card to the IDE interface (as if connecting a > HD), or do I need to have some interface to connect it to the IDE cable. > You can't connect it to an IDE cable. You need a PCMCIA adapter. > I understand that if I buy a PCMCIA adaptor for CF card I can use it in > the > PCMCIA slot of a laptop and in that case also will I see the CF card as a > Hard disk? Yup, my friend's camera works that way. When you put the card in a pcmcia slot, it shows up as an IDE device with a normal FAT filesystem. It was /dev/hde, IIRC. (Actually, it might have been a RAM card with a battery, not a flash card.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
