8 Gb Compat Flash - DMA / PIO mode

I have seen an announcement for Trascend 8 GB Compact Flash card at newegg.
Almost by chance I went to the Trascend site and looked at the specs for these memories, and I have found there are two types of flash cards (link
http://www.transcendusa.com/Products...gNo=0&ModNo=98)
one for PIO mode and another one for DMA, both given 120x speed.
Does anybody know which one is best for the X50V, or is it indifferent ?

Bruno

[rlarson_mn]

I have a Transcend CompactFlach 8gb 120X inserted into my CF slot on my X51V and it works great.

Is there a way to understand which type the card is ?

I have a Transcend CompactFlach 8gb 120X inserted into my CF slot on my X51V and it works great.

[LadySDevil]

Looks like you should be able to tell from the part number which one it is, as the PIO ones appear to have a -P after the part number. Other than that, I don't think there is a way to tell.

[littlerabbit]

But even if I know whether a card is PIO or DMA might not help. I still
need to know if Axim x5?(v) support both. If not, I'd still have a chance
to get the wrong one. And that's precisely my issue now. Any idea anyone?
I looked up X51v Owner's Manual, and found no results. Check Dell's users
forum, SanDisk, Transcend's compatability lists, no use...

I know, we've a Storarge Card Compatability list here in this forum. However,
I found that most have no part numbers. So I'm still a little worry I might not
get the one "certified" here by other users.

Also, I'd like a type II CF card just to avoid the "gapping" issue. Is this
hard to get? I visited a few vendors, but not all inventories were labeled.
Some were labeled as type I. Can we assume that it's by default type II
if not labeled?

[Skier7667]

How can you tell if the CF card is type I or type II because I don't see that while checking stores like EggHead for example, labeled on the cards or when checking the specs they have online. How can you tel?

[spud42]

type II CF is thicker thats the only physical difference. CF Hdd are CFII spec. if you want to avoid the gap you could buy a SDHC to CF adapator. they are spec II size and you could put in a 16Gig SDHC card..... either that or get a seagate or hitachi HDD . i have a SD to CF that works prefectly also a seagate 4Gig HDD .i dont use the SD adaptor any moer as i keep a 2 Gig SD and the 4Gig HDD in my 4700. try looking up the compact flash spec in google there is a heap of info there

[spunker88]

I have the red 8gb transcend card, and it works great in my x50.