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Title: Fast CF cards?
Post by: panyo on March 16, 2004, 01:45:33 am

I am shopping for a new compact flash card and I would like to know what the fastest usable speed is for my Zaurus 5500.

I am currently using a 128M Transcend card that has nothing special on the face and the following on the edge:
76985 KTN3 128MCP  0330 QC:65
I am not sure what the speed is, but I bought it as higher than normal speed about half a year ago. I have had no problems with it, execpt that I have not figured out what combination of things to do with pdisk and mkfs to be able to flash from it. Putting my qpzidian dictionary file on it makes that translation dictionary work much faster than putting the database on the 256M
Sandisk SD card.

Cards I am looking at are 65x Sandisk, 45x Transcend, 40x Lexar,  and 40x Ridata.

Does anyone have information on these cards? Are there limmits to my Zaurus that mean I should be looking at cheaper slower cardl?
I am using OZ 3.3.5 if that makes a difference, or if there is something I can do with it to optimize speed.

Title: Fast CF cards?
Post by: zbones on March 16, 2004, 04:21:57 am

Take a look at my speed tests here:-

http://www.zaurususergroup.com/index.php?n...iewtopic&t=2292 (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=2292)

The faster cards will not give you faster throughput than your current card, particularly on a 5500.

by all means buy a fast cf card for future compatibilty or for use in other devices/card reader in pc etc, but don\'t expect it to go any faster than your current cf card.

I don\'t think this kernel setting is availible for oz yet either.

Peter