From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Nov 17 0:24:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAB8137B479; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 00:24:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3054757311; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 02:24:55 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 02:24:55 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: Gregory Neil Shapiro Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for Clik! (PocketZip) drives? Message-ID: <20001117022455.A78020@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" Mail-Followup-To: "Michael C . Wu" , Gregory Neil Shapiro , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <14868.57279.285706.444437@horsey.gshapiro.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <14868.57279.285706.444437@horsey.gshapiro.net>; from gshapiro@freebsd.org on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:35:27PM -0800 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:35:27PM -0800, Gregory Neil Shapiro scribbled: | One of the few things holding me back from upgrading my laptop is that most | of the newer laptops don't have removable hard drives. One of the things I | like about my current laptop is the ability to pop out the hard drive and | put it in my pocket if I am going to be away from the laptop (the laptop is | replaceable, the data isn't). | | A possible solution is the IO Mega Clik! drives which, in newer versions, | is just a PCMCIA card that acts as the drive (i.e., no external | cables/hardware). This would allow me to use the Clik! drive as my home | directory and just pop out the disk as I pop out the drive in my current | laptop. Hi Greg, I have no input on the Clik! issue, but am wondering why you cannot use a PCMCIA CF adapter plus an IBM Compact Flash media or CF ata drive. The largest one is 1gb now. (although at a very "dreamy" price) However, I think a 64mb flash card or even a 256mb one would help you very nicely. The cf cards are much more durable than the Clik!. And the pcmcia adapter is only $7 on major online stores. FreeBSD supports them fully. (Many people run entire FreeBSD systems on -small with compact sandisks.) Another solution, a little more expensive and non-portable, is to use the Sony VAIO laptops' built-in memorymedia slots. They detect as umass0->da0. My choice would/has been compact flash. :) -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message