From: Stuart F. Biggar (Stuart.Biggar_at_opt-sci.arizona.edu)
Date: Sun Sep 15 2002 - 12:54:37 EDT
At 11:27 AM 9/15/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>My question is, am I right in thinking 128/256Mb is the sweet spot,
>and Crucial's $100 for the 256 with free shipping is a good price?
>
Andrew,
I have a SanDisk 256 MB - works fine and your price looks much
better than what I paid 6 months ago. Depending on the setting
of your camera, a 256 MB should hold lots of images. My Nikon
averages about 400KB for a full res JPEG image so I can stuff
lots of images on a 256 MB card.
>My TP600 related question has to do with PCMCIA adapters. I'll buy
>one here for simplicity. With my current USB adapter, while I seem
>to be able to just plug it in and it's seen, if I unplug it and
>plug it in again, I often (or always?) have to rebook Win2K. How
>easy is the PCMCIA adapter to use with Win2K? Just shove it in and
>eject it? Have to reboot or do anything special?
With my A21p with Win2000, I need to "stop" the card before
unplugging it - there is a small icon at the bottom right
of the screen with the image of a card with an arrow over
it. Click once and select the "Stop PCMCIA IDE/ATAPI Controller -
Drive (E:)" where E may be something else for you. I then
get something like "The 'PCMCIA IDE/ATAPI Controller' device
can now be safely removed from the system". I hit OK and
eject the card. It can be plugged back in without problems
if I do that. I can do similar things with Sun Solaris (UNIX)
without problems.
The following is somewhat speculative so take as such ...
I think that Win2000 mounts CF cards as removable media however
it turns on a write cache. Therefore you have to stop the
device to flush the cache before ejecting the device. I have
read that XP mounts removable media like CF cards without a
write cache, removing the need for forcing a flush by "stopping"
the device.
I have not used a USB CF adapter so I can't comment. I do know
that if I suspend my A21p with a USB printer connected and
disconnect the printer before I resume, Win2000 complains about
me not stopping the USB device before unplugging it.
Therefore I would guess that you should stop the USB adapter
before unplugging it but I have no idea how one would do
that ...
Stuart
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