USB card providing power to devices?

2002-11-04 Thread Laurent Daudelin
I'm looking at a USB compact flash reader/writer and, so far, all of them are bus powered. Now, I'm looking to give this reader/writer and I know that the laptop that will be used with it *doesn't* have built-in USB (PB 1400). So, is there any cardbus USB PCMCIA card that would provide power to

Re: USB card providing power to devices?

2002-11-04 Thread Brian Scott Oplinger
I'm looking at a USB compact flash reader/writer and, so far, all of them are bus powered. Now, I'm looking to give this reader/writer and I know that the laptop that will be used with it *doesn't* have built-in USB (PB 1400). So, is there any cardbus USB PCMCIA card that would provide power to

Re: USB card providing power to devices?

2002-11-04 Thread Richard Smykla
Laurent, Just get a Compact Flash Adapter. CF cards don't draw much power, the adapters are cheap (~$10 US), and should work in any Type II PCMCIA Card slot. I use one made by Simple Technology, works great in my Lombard G3. OS X doesn't even require any driver software (not sure about OS9

Re: USB card providing power to devices?

2002-11-04 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 04/11/02 17:06, Brian Scott Oplinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking at a USB compact flash reader/writer and, so far, all of them are bus powered. Now, I'm looking to give this reader/writer and I know that the laptop that will be used with it *doesn't* have built-in USB (PB 1400).