Re: USB 2 PCMCIA Adaptor???

On Sep 5, 9:25 am, BillW50 <Bill...@aol.kom> wrote:
> Martin Slaney wrote on ri, 05 Sep 2008 06:29:40 +0100:
>
> > Patrick D. Rockwell wrote:
> >> My old laptop has a PCMCIA slot. I used an external hard drive by CMS
> >> to back up that laptop and it
> >> plugged into the PCMCIA slot of my old laptop.
>
> >> Recently, I got a new laptop and I found out that PCMCIA slots are old
> >> technology, so my question is
> >> this. Since my new laptop has 4 USB plugs, is there an adaptor into
> >> which I can plug my PCMCIA
> >> external hard drive, and then plug that adaptor into my old laptop?
>
> > Very much doubt it. If there was such a thing it would almost certainly
> > cost more than a USB enclosure to re-house the HD from your PCMCIA
> > enclosure.
>
> Hi Patrick! Why do you call PCMCIA as old technology? As it is still
> widely supported. I have three PCMCIA hard drives myself. Although they
> are twice as high as a standard PCMCIA card and takes up two slots. My
> Gateway MX6124 has a PCMCIA slot, but they won't fit in single slot
> PCMCIA. They still work in my old Toshiba 2595XDVD though.
>

Hi Bill! The reason that I said that is because Apparently Dell
doesn't make
computers with the PCMCIA slot anymore, and CMS doesn't make external
hard drives which plug into the PCMCIA slot anymore. They were the
ones who
told me that it was old technology.

> I don't know what your PCMCIA looks like. But I seriously doubt that I
> could pull mine out of the PCMCIA card and use them with an USB adapter.
> As they are much smaller than 2 1/2 inch hard drives. And even if it
> does have a plug, you probably couldn't find an USB adaptor for them anyw
ay.
>
> What size is yours? Mine are 512MB and flash drives are much better than

My PCMCIA hard drive is 20 Gigs in size.

> my old hard drives anyway. And I consider them too small for modern use
> anyway and it isn't a big deal for me to just put them in my spare parts
> box. So I don't know, you might want to think about it as well.
>
> --
> Bill
> Black Asus EEE PC 4GB 2GB SODIMM Adata 16GB
> Windows XP SP2 and Xandros Linux

Thanks for your reply.
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