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Skawrpion Occasional Visitor
Joined: Feb 19, 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Rochester, NY
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Darren Frequent Visitor
Joined: 11/07/2002 14:36:40 Posts: 23848 Location: Hampshire, UK
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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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Shouldn't be a problem, are you planning to use this in a PCMCIA Jacket on a PocketPC or in a laptop? I ask because if it's a Laptop you'll need to ensure you have drivers but that has nothing to do with using it in an adapter. _________________ Darren Griffin |
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Skawrpion Occasional Visitor
Joined: Feb 19, 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Rochester, NY
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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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It is going to be used in a laptop with the Holux CF GPS Ultra, I assume that drivers will come with the CF adapter.
Thanks Darren |
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Darren Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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Many CF products 'assume' that they will only be used in a handheld and so don't come with PC drivers. Luckily Holux do have a PCMCIA Driver for this card here _________________ Darren Griffin |
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Skawrpion Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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AHH! I see i thought you meant the drivers for the Adapter and in fact you were refering to the GPS drivers , THANKS!!! |
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DavidW Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: 17/05/2003 02:26:21 Posts: 3747 Location: Bedfordshire, UK
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Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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The adapters don't have any drivers. The CompactFlash interface, electrically and logically, is a subset of the signals in the PC Card interface (there's a few things in the CompactFlash standard that don't have a parallel in PC Card, though these need not concern us that much).
In essence, all the adapter does is wire through the relevant pins of the 68 pin PC Card interface to a 50 pin CompactFlash connector. They're entirely passive - in essence just a load of wiring.
If you're not going to put a memory card in the adapter, you will need Windows drivers for the CompactFlash card you've inserted in the laptop. As Darren says, some CompactFlash cards aimed at Pocket PCs have Windows drivers, some don't.
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