Craig White wrote: > On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 22:33, Mark Jarvis wrote: > >>I had a Kodak digital camera. It had a problem and was out of mfg. >>warranty, but covered by the credit card extended warranty. They >>apparently have chosen to refund the purchase price rather than repair. >>I'm now left with a 256MB SD card and an SD reader/writer. The one time >>I used it (on a trip for grandson's HS graduation when the camera said >>the card went flooey) the reader recovered all pictures easily and it >>seemed to be just about like using my neat little 128MB flash drive. >> >>It seems to me that I could carry the (compact size) reader, card, & >>cord just as easily as I carry the flash drive & cord and use them like >>a 256MB flash memory. Does anyone know of any real or potential gotchas >>with that idea? > > ---- > only that Win98, WinME and possibly Win2K will need drivers to use it - > WinXP will probably automatically install the necessary drivers. You may > want to make a floppy or cd with the drivers for those OS's to carry > around with you just in case. > > BTW - my camera (Pentax Optio S) and my phone (Kyocera 7135) use the SD > card. Fry's apparently has the SD 256 cards on sale for $49 not > including a $20 rebate > > Craig > Thanks for the tip! I think that I'm OK--my son's W2K took the SanDisk reader without installing anything. I have XP at home and the school's boxen (the only other place I expect to use the reader) have W2K & XP. -mj- > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss