Toshiba 5gb PCMCIA with 2003se

[ridezilightnin]

Looked everywhere. Has anyone been able to get it to work?

[Don't Panic!]

Yes it worked for me with an adapter from semsons.

[ridezilightnin]

I have the adapter, but it just locks up. Read everywhere about it not working, same problem as I have.

[Chrissss]

Maybe the Toshiba requires the standard 5 volt output of a PCMCIA slot. A CF slot only provides 3.3 volts.

I use a Kingston Datapak 5 GB PCMCIA card with my X5 and it works great.

Chris...

[ridezilightnin]

Nah, its a 3.3. I only heard of it working in 2002.Alot of others have used it, but its said that once updated to 2003, the drivers were f'ed up.

[ridezilightnin]

Has anyone got one of these to work. Works with my ppc2002 but not 2003se. Any suggestions?

[bigbop]

PCMCIA drive??? How do you connect it - through a PCMCIA to CF converter?
What's the model number?

[ridezilightnin]

Its one of those pcmcia to cf from semsons.

[bigbop]

OK, I see. If your PCMCIA card is cardbus, it won't work.

The CF slot is a subset of PCMCIA and as such, does not have all the data bus bits available. The CF spec is 12 bit and CF cards usually use 8bit. Your PCMCIA card is most likely 16 or 32 bit. Unless you specifically have drivers for the PDA that can drive this card, (eg: if the card was designed to work with the PCMCIA adapter for the Ipaq PDAs) it most likely won't work.

[Don't Panic!]

IT's probably the Adapter causing the problem. I have one that works and one that doesn't. It been a while since I got the replacement for the one that works but IIRC There was something on the manufactures webpage about sending it in for a replacement that works. Once again I do have this working on an X50v with 2003SE.

[ridezilightnin]

Any chance you know how I could get a replacement? Can't find anything on semsons.