>>Is it possible to use a pcmcia card reader with the jornada?
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>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.
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Do other cards like sd or memorystick work the same way? Isn't there
anything more
to do then a "re-arrange" of the pins?
>>Or is it even possible to get a usb-pcmcia with a connected card reader
>>working?
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>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.
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Thanks for the link and information, but anyway it's to expensive ...
>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!).
>
>
May be it's possible to convert the images to a lower resolution
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