[rescue] PCMCIA and sbus

[Barry Callahan]

Save your money, Jon.

If the slot is a 16-bit PCMCIA slot, you **CAN NOT** plug a 32-bit 
CardBus card into it. As Stephen pointed out, there are bumps that will 
stop you from slotting it in.

If you had a 32-bit slot and plugged a 16-bit card into it, the 32-bit 
controller will fail over to 16-bit mode and everything will work.



On 12/8/2014 1:44 PM, Jonathan Katz wrote:
> On Dec 8, 2014, at 7:36 PM, Stephen Conley <cheetah at tanabi.org> wrote:
>> I seem to recall CardBus had like a 'crown' of bumps near the
>> connector that made it physically impossible to put into a 16 bit
>> slot, though it's been a really long time since I've used this stuff.
> If this has a generic-enough chipset, it may just fit the billb&
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-Port-USB-2-0-Hub-to-CardBus-PCMCIA-PC-Card-Adapter-
> For-32-Bit-Notebook-Laptop-/261347646511
> <http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-Port-USB-2-0-Hub-to-CardBus-PCMCIA-PC-Card-Adapter
> -For-32-Bit-Notebook-Laptop-/261347646511>
>
> I wonbt have any disposable income to play with this until February,
> anyway.
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