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Date:      Thu, 03 Aug 2000 15:40:46 +1000
From:      Harry Woodward-Clarke <Harry.Woodward-Clarke@S1.com>
To:        Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cheapest laptop for FreeBSD? winmodems?
Message-ID:  <398905DE.F44D9BDA@S1.com>
References:  <20000803053338.A564916F@woodstock.monkey.net>

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Hi Jon,

> Well, be careful what you wish for: it _has_ two slots, but only one is
> usable at a time according to my reading of their point-of-sale 
> propaganda
> (one is type III and one is type II).
>

as I understand this "Type II / Type III" stuff is that a Type III
PC-Card is twice as thick (usually) as a Type II, thus you can fit only
one Type III card into the slot. Type III devices, I believe, can be
things like disk-drives and such, needing both PC-busses to transfer
data at a 'reasonable' rate. I could be wrong about this last.

AFAIK you can have 2 x Type II devices in the machine at the same time.

at this time (V4.0 - it may have changed last week with the release of
4.1) there is limited (read 'almost none') support for Cardbus cards,
which are 32-bit (vs the 'old' 16bit PC-Card).
 
Of course, I may just be wrong ;')

hth,

haxxa


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