Re: TR: Compact Flash and Drivers

[Sven Utcke <utcke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Does a SRAM Card also need a driver ????

No.  Well, at least none of the cards I ever tried (unless you used
stacker or somesuch on on, of course :-).

> Since Stuart has no serial cable but a SRAM card and a
> flash card, I guess that the SRAM card can be used to
> exchange data with another computer ???
> 
> So a SRAM card could be a way to download the driver ??????

Absolutely.  And the SRAM-card should be readable (and writeable) in
any DOS or Windows 9x Notebook with a PCMCIA drive (not Linux,
unfortunately, and I don't know about NT/ME/2000).  There have been
some discussions on the readability of SRAM, have a look at
http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~utcke/lists/sharp-pc3k/threads.html

Sven
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