Need a driver: Intel PCMCIA Flash card

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 19:24:36 CDT 2005


Ethan Dicks wrote:
> On 10/12/05, Simon Fryer <fryers at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>I am guessing, by looking at the size of the card, this is a Type II
>>card. Most PCMCIA card readers fitted to laptops and PCs will only
>>read Type III PCMCIA memory cards.
> 
> 
> Perhaps you have an off-by-one error?
> 
> Most recent laptops only have a single Type II slot, but many Pentium
> laptops have a "dual Type II/Type III socket" meaning you can use two
> Type II cards simultaneously or one Type III (the thickness of the
> card blocks the upper slot)
> 
> Type I cards were strange and most semi-modern stuff doesn't support
> them, AFAIK.

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


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