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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

Another way to read memory cards with DOS (or Windows) is to stick them 
into a PCMCIA adaptor and thence into a PCMCIA slot, which are available 
for installing into 3.5" bays and PCI slots.  We have two that go into ISA 
slots.  These cost $20 (the adaptors) and the PCMCIA slots cost something 
too.  They come with DOS and Windows software.

Or kingbyte (Taiwan) and mcmicro (Brazil?) sell parallel port memory card 
readers for Smartmedia (and maybe other formats), price unknown, that plug 
into the parallel port.  Kingbyte's DOS software is 65K, comparable to 
photopc.  

Datafab used to make two readers  MDSM and MDSM-SR (portable and 
fixed models, the latter with pass-thru) in 1998, one of which sold 
recently on eBay for about $2 plus $8 shipping to Europe only.  There are 
lots of readers for Windows only selling new for about $5.  I did not 
check for PCMCIA adaptors.  We won't be carrying a computer with us and 
can't count on finding PCMCIA slots.  I hear some new computers don't have 
parallel OR serial ports but in that case maybe they have built-in card 
readers and WinXP software to go with them.  

I attempted to write the first two companies for more information.  Links
worked better than lynx at one otherwise invisible site.


What would it take to make a parallel port memory card reader work in 
Linux?  I might write the linux-parport list.

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, James Miller wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:
> 
> > Can you tell me how much disk space the USB and card reader software for
> > DOS occupies?
> 
> I'm going to guesstimate that the two USB drivers I load to initialize the
> compact flash disk/reader I use take up less than 100KB of disk space.
> 
> > Are you doing this with FreeDOS?
> 
> Yes, this all works for me under FreeDOS.  Haven't tried it with M$DOS or
> others, but it should work with them as well.
> 
> James
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