> I'm curious to see if anyone has experience w/ those CompactFlash RAM > adapters for the PC-card slot. Do they work w/o having to get the CardBus > upgrade? I'm thinking about two things. First, just using a big card for > VM space or as a "RAMdisk", to save on batteries. Second, I'm hoping to > then get a digital camera that uses CF cards and be able to transfer the > pics w/o having to spend the $99 on the upgrade. Thanks. A Compact Flash card really is just a PCMCIA storage card in a smaller package (it appears as an ATA drive). This is why the CF adaptor for PC card slots is so cheap relative to the Smartmedia or multiformat adaptors - the former is really just an inert wire adaptor, while the latter have to have some smarts. On the other hand the CF media itself is usually a bit more expensive (and bulky) than Smartmedia, and doesn't have the potential security features of SD/MMC. Six of one, half-dozen of the other. ;) They work as well in the stock 2400 as anywhere else. As noted, they're pretty slow, and the nature of flash memory also makes them poorly suited to VM storage or any other application that involves a lot of writes (the memory cells are only good for so many rewrites, and the number is surprisingly low). You can use it for general storage as long as your planned application involves relatively little writing - the ideal is more or less the way a camera uses it (writing large files sporadically). Using it to spin down the hard drive (to save battery power) would probably exceed that goal, and you might be better advised to stick to a RAM disk in main memory. Unfortunately even using the flash card as a boot disk involves a fair amount of small writes, probably wearing it out quickly. The speed when reading is as good as or faster than retrieving pictures through a USB link to a camera, of course, and in many cases it's more convenient to read the card directly. -- Marc Sira | toh at victoria.tc.ca If you can't play with words, what good are they?