Re: 16 bit PCMCIA devices

[Alexander Clouter <alexander.clouter@ic.ac.uk>]

Sunny Dubey [dubeys@bxscience.edu] wrote:
> 
> Is anyone aware of the band width limitation of a 16 bit pcmcia device ??  Or 
> does that band width limitation not matter if I plug the card into a 32 bit 
> card socket??  (or am I completely wrong?)
> 
as said before it ain't going to make any difference, but because a 16bit
card is as good as an ISA card you will be lucky to get more than 1.2Mb/sec
through the bus and more importantly your CPU usage will hit 100% as the CPU
waits to rip data off the bus.  Hence why 32bit cards are nicer ;)

Alex

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