From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 2 22:44:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw00.execpc.com (mailgw00.execpc.com [169.207.1.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECFD037B5DC for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 22:44:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamilton@pobox.com) Received: from woodstock.monkey.net (d65.as14.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net [169.207.134.65]) by mailgw00.execpc.com (8.9.1) id AAA16940; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 00:43:56 -0500 Received: from pobox.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodstock.monkey.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44B8616F; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 00:44:55 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/16/1999 To: Harry Woodward-Clarke Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: cheapest laptop for FreeBSD? winmodems? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 03 Aug 2000 15:40:46 +1000." <398905DE.F44D9BDA@S1.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 00:44:55 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton Message-Id: <20000803054455.44B8616F@woodstock.monkey.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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