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To: NHP who wrote (21396)	12/30/2001 5:03:41 PM
From: Londo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

I've suggested to SanDisk that they look into producing such an adapter with hardware for mounting it into a 3.5" ported drive bay. This is a great idea, but can't be done, mainly because the consumer focus would be to create some sort of floppy disk (that you can stick a CF card in), and use that as an interface. The only problem is that the 3.5" floppy takes about 10 seconds to transfer its 1.4 megabytes of data, and now you can pick up 128 meg flash cards for under $100, I doubt people would want to spend money on an interface that is ultimately SLOW. If I mis-interpreted the technical requirements of what you were thinking, apologies. When you have a device that forces people to open up their computer cases, and hook up their floppy drive cables to devices, you've just exited the marketing realm of the consumer, and strictly into the computer guru area - a much smaller market. But still, if they sold such drives, I'd probably pick one up if it was under 50 bucks. But it wouldn't exactly be a high-margin business to get into - certainly out of SNDK's core competency.

To: NHP who wrote (21396)	1/1/2002 1:07:11 AM
From: Craig Freeman	Respond to of 60323

NHP, re: "CF Cards as IDE Drives" Running Win98, a day's changes usually took ~300MB. Under Windows 2000 Pro that increases to >1GB. CDR backups became impossible and flash was WAY too expensive. My advice ... Buy a 60GB FireWire drive (with a free PCI Firewire I/O card) from www.memoryonly.com for less than a 256MB flash card would cost in many places. It is many times faster and WAY FAR bigger in terms of capacity. USB 2.0 drives work too. But all the earlier USB 1.x noise is way too slow for anyone with a life. Craig References: I own a 60MB Maxtor Firewire hard drive (with Firewire card) and also a Buslink USB 2.0 External Drive (with USB 2.0 card). They are attached to a system with a Tualatin 1.2GB processor with 512MB of CL2 RAM and a 40GB IBM 7,200 RPM ATA/100 drive. Yes, these were expensive components and yes they run VERY cool. Faster systems exist but "better" systems ... Not!

To: NHP who wrote (21396)	1/25/2002 12:24:52 AM
From: Londo	Respond to of 60323

Research #2: Take a look at these products on their site: sandisk.com Then click on the "Check Availability" link.. They're selling a USB to CF interface for US$23.. tomorrow I'll be picking up one of these things at the local store. The reason why I replied to you (NHP) was because of the floppy disk conversion to the different format memory.. shelling out 80 bucks for that interface is steep, but the USB-CF converter sounds like a no-brainer purchase for anybody that has a digital camera that takes CF..