Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 10:04:19 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] OT, SmartMedia size V speed ..
>Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:56:11 +0800 >From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Maybe my memory/mind has gone further into low gear than I thought after >getting it hit by that 3500 lb steel beast... but I THOUGHT the last time >I downloaded a full 16MB CF card from my Nikon to my desktop (AMD T-Bird >800 plus a lot of other junk) via USB ... it just went in a flash! Or, as >you'd say Raymond (perhaps as per Neil's 'delete' processing method:)... >Wheeee!< < >Thats why I mentioned at one point that I timed it for when the camera's >activity light stops. Windows has a nasty habit of reporting the end time >as being when the DRIVER says its got the end of the file. Which is a >problem if the driver has a large buffer because then all you're timing is >the time taken for the file to make it into the buffer. Given that the >computer I was testing on had half a gig of RAM, I'm 99.99% sure that it >was shoving my entire test file into buffer (hence it being done in a >flash).< I'll have to install the Nikon software on my brother's desktop and time the tranfer from the Nikon's CF card. My curiosity has been peaked. M. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************