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Date:	Tue, 29 Apr 2003 09:07:56 PDT7
From:	Tom Brown <thombrown@san.rr.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: San Disk memory card reader problem

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Would you please post or send me privately the relevant USB section of
your CONFIG.SYS and a directory listing of x:\os2\boot\usb*.* and CW*.*
if you are using Chris Wohlgemuth's drivers? Thanks!

> Sheridan George wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I just tested my IDE CompactFlash reader with a 128MB card. The
>> "...with the attendant speed of a hard drive" statement is incorrect.
>> I dragged and dropped a 6 file group, totaling 3.2 MB, onto the
>> CompactFlash drive. It took about 11 seconds to do the copy. It only
>> took 2 seconds to delete the whole group. Well, it seemed fast.
>>
>
> I decided the test I did was not how it would be used in a camera. The
> camera would load up the card and one would then download the data to a
> computer. So I loaded the card with 106MB of files and copied them to my
> ram disk. That copy took 40 seconds resulting in a transfer rate of
> about 2.65MB/sec. The subsequent delete took 13 seconds.
>
> OK, that is all of the fun for now.
>
> Sheridan

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Tom Brown
thombrown@san.rr.com
Member SCOUG, V.O.I.C.E. & SDAA
running eComStation GA + FP 3
eCS system uptime is 0 days 00:11 hours

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