I bought a digital camera a little while ago at a yard sale for fairly cheap. The problem is that the the flash memory chips that it came with run on a pcmcia slot adapter which is called a "3M CF Adapter" I have a pcmcia card slot, but I cant seem to find any drivers for this adapter anywhere that would allow me to use the memory. Any help on finding drivers for this, or any help on how to use a 3M CF adapter would be apperciated. Thank you in Advance, Nicholas Ross.

-- Nicholas Ross (debate@uclink4.bekeley.edu), October 04, 1998

Answers

Nicholas-

If the documentation calls for a "CF" adapter, that suggests the cards are actually CompactFlash, a very common memory type these days. You can get CompactFlash/PCMCIA adapters most anywhere, for pretty cheap. (Expect to pay around $15-20.) I think the CF standard has been pretty stable for quite a while now, so the current CF cards and/or adapters should work OK. A CF card in a PCMCIA adapter pretty much looks like a disk drive to the computer when you stick it in the card slot. Older Mac PowerBooks needed special drivers from Apple to mount the CF as a disk drive, but I think that essentially all Windows laptops have always read them just fine. (Current Macs do, too - I think the Mac PB 540 with card-cage adapter was the last that needed special drivers.)

PS: you didn't state what brand the digital camera is, which may affect the answers...

-- Dave Etchells (web@imaging-resource.com), October 05, 1998.