Portable hard drive for iPaq?NOT microdrives

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Well, you could look at something like
http://www.twin-paradox.com/SEPDA.html for a CF USB host card. Then you can
plug in whatever USB HD you want. Of course, you'll probably need to be
hooked up to external power to use the HD's, as I doubt your PocketPC
battery will power things for too long.

Clint

"Patrick" <patrickm@spamsonic.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> wondering is there anyone using a laptop hard drive with some sort of CF
> ide adaptor with their iPaq? I would love if this were possibe due to the
> greater space on the small laptop drives. I am thinking mainly of mp3
> storage, currently I am using 2 256mb CD cards but the speeds are not that
> great and moving files on and off the cards just take too long for day to
> day use.
> TIA
>
>

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Patrick wrote:

> Hi,
> wondering is there anyone using a laptop hard drive with some sort of CF
> ide adaptor with their iPaq? I would love if this were possibe due to the
> greater space on the small laptop drives. I am thinking mainly of mp3
> storage, currently I am using 2 256mb CD cards but the speeds are not that
> great and moving files on and off the cards just take too long for day to
> day use.
> TIA
>
>
Do you move stuff on/off using ActiveSync - that's real slow!

If so, try getting a USB 2.0 <-> CF card reader/writer (mine cost 9.99
UK Pounds!) - I regularly fill a 512MB CF card with it and it's very
fast - *MUCH* faster than ActiveSync..

L3K

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Great tip, I just tried copying some files from my computer to my Nikon
camera which also uses the same CF card and it is only USB 1.1 but the speed
was MUCH faster.
I wonder if this is processor related to the PPC?
Thanks for the tip
Patrick



"Linker3000" <linker3000@youkaytwodotnetuk2.net> wrote in message
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> Patrick wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > wondering is there anyone using a laptop hard drive with some sort of
CF
> > ide adaptor with their iPaq? I would love if this were possibe due to
the
> > greater space on the small laptop drives. I am thinking mainly of mp3
> > storage, currently I am using 2 256mb CD cards but the speeds are not
that
> > great and moving files on and off the cards just take too long for day
to
> > day use.
> > TIA
> >
> >
> Do you move stuff on/off using ActiveSync - that's real slow!
>
> If so, try getting a USB 2.0 <-> CF card reader/writer (mine cost 9.99
> UK Pounds!) - I regularly fill a 512MB CF card with it and it's very
> fast - *MUCH* faster than ActiveSync..
>
> L3K