Re: Sandisk Flash Disk Compatibility - any PC3K work arounds?

["John Hoh" <johnhoh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are some HP branded ATA flashdisks that supposedly are made by Sundisk
(now Sandisk).  Are the higher capacities directly compatible?  I can vouch
for compatibility of the SDP5-5 branded on the front as HP and clearly made
by SunDisk on the back.

----- Original Message -----
From: Sven Utcke <sven.utcke@xxxxxx>
To: Sharp PC 3000/3100 mailing list
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Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 12:22 PM
Subject: Fw: Sandisk Flash Disk Compatibility - any PC3K work arounds?


| > Sven, Thanks for your quick response also - here is a follow-up from
| > Stewart as well.  No BIOS hacks to overcome the PCMCIA rev2
| > differences?
|
| Nope.  There is actually an electrical difference, so any hack
| overcoming the limitations of rev 1.x would involve at least a
| soldering iron.  Sorry.
|
| > The form factor will often fit though barely.
|
| Don't confuse Revision 2.0 with Type II.  Type I, II and III are the
| card form-factors (about 3mm, 5mm and 13mm --- forgot how much
| exactly).  The Sharp is officially Type I, but you can usually insert
| Type II (extracting them is a different matter :-).  It is also
| Revision 1.0, which only specified interfaces for memory-cards, as
| opposed to the current Revision 2.x, which can do modems,
| network-cards, CDROM, you name it.  This will _not_ work in the Sharp
| PC3100701C, 80486 DX4/75, 40MB RAM, 3.2GB HDD, Linux 2.0.36