On 08/02/07, John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 01:50:07PM +0000, Eric Featherstone wrote: > > On 08/02/07, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Eric Featherstone wrote: > > > > > > >On 08/02/07, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > > > >> If I can get a SCSI card for my laptop I could bring the Minolta Scan > > > >> Multi! > > > > > > > >Something like one of these should do it: > > > >http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&from=R10&satitle=usb+scsi+%28converter%2Cadapter%29 > > > >or tinyurl > > > >http://tinyurl.com/23kkcf > > > > > > > >Maybe there are PCMCIA SCSI cards out there too? > > > > > > There are. I found a couple of them on eBay, too. > > > I may have to get one just for GFM. > > > > Cool, I'd guess they shoould be better, for not having the bottleneck > > of USB1.1 in the way. > > A vanilla PCMCIA card will still be a pretty bad bottleneck; I'm not > sure what their maximum transfer rate is, but it isn't all that great.
A good point. I did a little googling, PCMCIA is 16MB/s (16bits @ 8MHz - the old ISA standard) so should be fast enough for FastSCSI. Cardbus is [EMAIL PROTECTED] so easily fast enough. > What you really want (assuming your laptop supports it, of course) is > a cardbus card. These are, naturally, more expensive :-(. They look > just like a PCMCIA card (except for a gold stripe). I can't remember > when laptop manufacturers started putting cardbus-compatible slots in > machines, but it was at least five years ago. Or even Firewire-SCSI converters, though they are also more expensive :-( Eric. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
