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-
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