Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 00:44:55 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: Harry Woodward-Clarke <Harry.Woodward-Clarke@S1.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cheapest laptop for FreeBSD? winmodems? Message-ID: <20000803054455.44B8616F@woodstock.monkey.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Aug 2000 15:40:46 %2B1000." <398905DE.F44D9BDA@S1.com>
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In message <398905DE.F44D9BDA@S1.com>, Harry Woodward-Clarke wrote: } 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. That might be; the propaganda clearly stated that you could have one type II _OR_ one type III, but I admit to knowing nothing more about PCMCIA than was necessary to make my card work. Looking at the profile though, I see my 16 bit card is too wide to fit in the "top" slot, so if it's a type II, you definitely couldn't put two of it in at once. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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