On 07/03/06, Felix Härer <Fe-Ha_at_arcor.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just bought a Jornada 720 and installed familiar linux on the cf-card.
> Now I want to get pictures from my digital camera onto the machine.
>
> Is it possible to use a pcmcia card reader with the jornada?
Should be, as far as I know all these readers do is wire the pins of a CF
card into the PCMCIA card. The actual signals used by PCMCIA and CF are
identical.
Maybe a 16-bit card would work?
>
> Or is it even possible to get a usb-pcmcia with a connected card reader
> working?
I'm not aware of any USB Pcmcia (16-bit) cards. The Jornada only has 16-bit
PCMCIA support and does not support 32-bit cardbus cards which are now
pretty common. The only way i'm aware of doing this is to use the Ratoc
Compact Flash USB Host (
http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/products/subpages/cfu1u.html) along with
a PCMCIA to CF converter and i'm not 100% certain the Jornada will provide
enough power to do this.
Another problem you might encounter once you actually copy the image is that
the Jornada dosen't have the memory to display the resulting image. I have a
3 megapixel (2048x1536) camera which means that a decompressed image is 9
megabytes. None of the programs I tried where clever enough to rescale the
image as they decompressed it from jpeg. Althought Pocket IE viewed them
(but without zooming out which made it hard to figure out what the image
actually was!).
Received on Tue Mar 07 2006 - 11:26:51 EST
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