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yardie
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I received my compact flash adapter module (short version) last week (built by Tyler). But I don't know what type of compact flash cards i can buy to fit it in. Can someone please shed some light on this for me? There seems to be different types of compact flash cards...pretty confusing.

12-17-2000 04:46 PM

MarkEagle
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This is an informal list of known CF cards that will and won't work with the CF adapter as compiled from the FlashAdapter Forum on eGroups. The latest version of the beta software can be found there as well.

quote:

the numbers refer to card size in mb

CARDS REPORTED AS GOOD
Butterfly 30
Feiya 8
Kingston 64
Kodak 4, 8, 48
Memorex 16
Microtech 16
SanDisk 8, 16, 32 and 64
Simple Tech 128
TwinMOS 16

CARDS REPORTED AS BAD, OR HAVING PROBLEMS
HP 4
Lexar (multiple sizes)
Simple 16
Viking 32

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12-17-2000 05:21 PM

nysebull
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HP4 ok for me.

I have an HP 4 Mb card I got on Ebay and it works like a champ for me.

12-17-2000 07:10 PM

yardie
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What Type

Does it use Type II compact flash cards or type I? Does it matter?

12-18-2000 12:18 AM

MarkEagle
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It currently uses Type I. Read about it here.

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12-18-2000 12:31 AM

kalahari
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Princeton Technology 64 is Good too.

12-18-2000 12:43 AM

carlos torres
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Can someone please direct me to the web site (if it exists) that is manufacturing these adaptors for compact flash memory cards.

12-18-2000 10:47 PM

Eug
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It's interesting to note that the Lexar CF cards are different than most. The recent ones have USB support built-in. I wonder if this is why they don't work.

12-19-2000 01:38 AM

MarkEagle
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quote:
Originally posted by carlos torres
Can someone please direct me to the web site (if it exists) that is manufacturing these adaptors for compact flash memory cards.

Currently, it's a do-it-yourself project, though there are a few people building them for resale... check the Buy/Sell/Exchange forum. Supposedly, someone has obtained the rights to mass produce them but nothing has been formally announced yet.

If you'd like to make your own, you can get all the details here.

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12-19-2000 02:42 AM

MPM
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quote:
Originally posted by Eug
It's interesting to note that the Lexar CF cards are different than most. The recent ones have USB support built-in. I wonder if this is why they don't work.

No, that's not the reason. My Lexar 4MB card is not the new "Jumpshot" one that Lexar sells. The "Jumpshot" ones have the USB interface in them.

Lexar just didn't seem to follow the CompactFlash standard very well. A few other cards have the similar problems.