P2 card reader option

[speters]

Can anyone tell me it this will work to read P2 cards for file transfer??

http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ae4udd.asp

thanks

 

[TwistedLincoln]

I don't think so. In order to work with P2 cards, the reader has to support Cardbus. There is no mention of this in the ad.

FYI: Cardbus is the 32bit version of PCMCIA. When looking at a PCMCIA device, the small gold bumps at the top of the card signify that it is a Cardbus card. Notice that none of the cards in the ad's photo have such bumps...

 

[Jarek Zabczynski]

Certainly looks interesting. Anyone?

 

[Barry_Green]

I don't think it will. I had a one-slot Addonics and it didn't work at all, I think in retrospect that it's probably designed for 16-bit cards.

 

[speters]

Well, how bout this?

http://www.amtron.com/reader.htm

Would any of these options do it? For much less than a P2store?

 

[dpc]

Would be great if the amtron worked with P2 and could be tethered to:

http://www.macally.com/spec/usb/storage_device/phr_250otg.html

Kind of a poor man's P2 store unit. As soon as I have an HVX I'm going to try it.

 

[hypermog]

The card reader needs to support 32-bit CardBus connection as stated above. This means that all of the front-end 5.25" inch solutions I've seen anywhere will not work. I don't know how Panasonic is interfacing it with their $2500 model but if you want it on the cheap ~(25$) you'll have to put it in the back of your computer where a nice solid connection is available through PCI direct to the motherboard. This should work.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815104222#DetailSpecs

 

[Barry_Green]

Someone said that the Panasonic one is so dang expensive specifically because of this issue. It's actually supposedly a full computer/PCI board set in there, with a USB2 controller. So it's not just a slot reader... that may explain how they get around the limitation.