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[Frank Pittel]

Mark,

Are you saying that you think that manufacturers should be required
to ensure that what they sell as CF cards actually conform to the
spec on how a CF card is supposed to work! :-)  My favorite is when
the they don't follow the specs they publish for their parts.

I don't know what some people are doing with nitros but 4gig of space
is silly. I'm finding that even 128meg is more then reasonable. :-)
I found a source for 256meg cards online that I know work with the
SuperIDE. I got one last year and it's working fine. At $16 for a 256meg
card I may just get a dozon and content myself with a lifetime supply.

Frank


On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 11:51:39AM -0500, Mark Marlette wrote:
> Frank,
> 
> That is a good explaination but a spec is a spec and we found out that 
> some devices wouldn't work with one another and they were from the same 
> manufacture. IDE is loose, SCSI on the otherhand, we never saw any 
> problems like we did with IDE manufactures.
> 
> No limit on size, just more wasted space unless you write a partition 
> manager for HDB-DOS. NitrOS-9 has a ~4GB top end. Don't recommend going 
> over a ~128 MB partition because the cluster size will grow to larger 
> than one and certain legacy programs assume a cluster of one and BOOM, 
> corruption........
> 
> Mark
> 
> Quoting Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com>:
> 
> >Mark,
> >
> >Thanks for the reply. If you think about it, it makes sense that
> >the cards would cache incoming data. The cards are made for digital
> >cameras and the cameras need to write the data from one photo before
> >the camera is ready for another. The card I got a couple days ago
> >was bought at a camera store!
> >
> >Also is there a size limit for CF cards for use with your Superide
> >interface? I'm finding it very difficult to get CF cards any smaller
> >then 512meg and I'll bet that in a few months the smallest cards
> >around will be 1gig!
> >
> >Frank