Re: IBM microdrive.

David Given wrote:
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> On Thursday 14 February 2002 05:35, you wrote:
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> > I've got one of the 5Gb Toshiba PCMCIA drives and an ancient Xircom
> > "CreditCard Ethernet Adapter IIps" on my 3650 with a dual-slot sleeve.
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> I've just ordered one of these. What's the transfer speed over the
> non-CardBus interface?

Not clear if you're asking about the disk or the network card. When
I repeatedly run "hdparm -t /dev/hda", I see numbers like this:

 Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 36.56 seconds = 1.75 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 26.79 seconds = 2.39 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 31.40 seconds = 2.04 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 26.54 seconds = 2.41 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 26.96 seconds = 2.37 MB/sec

This drive apparently has no DMA modes. Increasing the multcount
value has no effect. I get similar numbers with this drive in my
old Dell Lattitude, so I guess it's just a slow drive.

> > The hard drive is often not recognized on a reboot. Pulling and
> > re-inserting the drive usually changes its mind and lets me boot
> > Intimate.
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> Ah. Bugger.

Yep. I's not a show-stopper, but it's not good either. I tolerate
little glitches like this because everything about my iPAQ is
experimental.

> BTW, does anyone know of any non-CardBus 100Mb ethernet cards that work on
> the iPAQ?

There are several 10/100 cards listed on the compatibility page at
handhelds.org. How does one tell if a card is "non-CardBus"?

Paul Allen

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