PC Card FAQ

[cary@agora.rdrop.com (David Cary)]

Subject: PC Card FAQ
Summary: Information about PCMCIA-compatible PC Cards.
Keywords:

PC Card FAQ (last changed 1997 Mar 8)
Expires: 1996 May 1
by d.cary@ieee.org (David Cary)
PC_Card_FAQ.txt is posted to alt.periphs.pcmcia,
comp.sys.laptops, comp.sys.palmtops, pci-sig@znyx.com,
and should be available via
  http://www.rdrop.com/~cary/
(ask David about MS-Word and HTML versions)

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Subject: 0. Contents

0. Contents
1. What is a FAQ ? About this FAQ
2. Introduction: What is PCMCIA?
3. What are PC Cards ?
4. Hosts / Slots for PC Cards
5. Setting up PC Card software
6. Developing PC Card software
7. Developing PC Cards: Mechanics
8. Developing PC Cards: electronic chips and kits available
9. Developing PC Cards: electronic specs
A. Card Bus
B. Developing PC Cards: The CIS
C. Developing PC Card hosts
D. On-line Resources
E. Books
F. Credits
G. Legal Mumbo-Jumbo

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Subject: 1. About this FAQ.

David Cary designed this FAQ to hold everything PCMCIA and PC
Card - related that I know/want to know/have heard rumors
about/. I can't possibly guarantee that everything in here is
true.

Please comment on this FAQ!
Comments this FAQ are welcomed.
Please do send corrections, (good) questions, suggestions,
contributions, (constructive) criticism, clarification of
ambiguities, and pointers to d.cary@ieee.org (David Cary).

If you have
information you think should be here please let me know.


Q: I'm thinking about html-izing this document. Any pro or
con comments ?
A1: "I think HTML would make it clearer to read." -- Samuel
Liddicott <sam@campbellsci.co.uk> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996
A2: ???

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Subject: D. On-line Resources

<a href="http://www.pc-card.com">
Official PCMCIA web site.</a>

<a href="http://login.eunet.no/~sverream/pcmcia.htm">
The PCMCIA Information Page.</a>

<a href="http://beta.missilab.com/readertest/mission.html">
claims that DoD requires two PC Card slots on all personal
computers and workstations purchased.</a>

Related Newsgroups :
  alt.periphs.pcmcia
  comp.sys.laptops ( home of Comp.Sys.Laptops FAQ from
dbridges@ERC.MsState.Edu (Douglas Bridges) )
  comp.sys.palmtops

<a href="http://www.aimnet.com/~avasales ">
Many PC Card accessories and development tools.
email: avasales@aimnet.com
Allan Hughes, AVA Instrumentation, Inc. 9672 Manzanita Ave.,
Ben Lomond, CA
95005 Tel: (408) 336-2281, Fax: (408) 336-5049
</a>.

<a href="http://www.annabooks.com">
Annabooks offers the "Using PC Card Technology Effectively"
seminar.</a>

<a href="http://www.ti.com/">
Texas Instruments
sells the "PCI1031" for US$ 11.27 (in 150 K quantities), a
"CardBus Controller" designed to go in a host PC, beween the
PC Card sockets and the PCI bus. It claims to support both
3.3V or 5V PCI bus and, at the same time, support either 3.3V
or 5V PC Cards.
</a>

"ftp microsoft.com had some interesting stuff at one time,
and ftp intel.com had flash device drivers, the pcic.exe
utility, PCI, and more.hes"
-- azachai@world.std.com (Arthur Zachai)

<a href="http://www.volksware.com/mobilis">
mobilis: the mobile computing lifestyle magazine
info on PDAs, wireless communication, and mobile
peripherals.</a>

Go PlugPlay (on CompuServe) has some info on PCMCIA.

<a
href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/ralf/pub/WWW/
ralf-home.html">
All x86 programmers should get a copy of the "interrupt list"
by Ralf Brown. It's available on the SimTel Software
Repository mirrors as files interRRa.zip to interRRd.ZIP in
directory /pub/msdos/info, where RR stands for the release
number. Note that you must use a binary transfer mode
("tenex" or "type L 8" for most people) to successfully FTP
.zip files.
The SimTel mirrors include oak.oakland.edu [141.210.10.117],
wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4], ftp.uu.net [137.39.1.9],
nic.funet.fi [128.214.6.100], src.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.3.7],
and archie.au [139.130.4.6].
</a>

<a href="http://www.pcisig.com">
If you're interested in CardBus, you should probably look at:
PCI Special Interest Group
mailing list: Send mail to pci-sig-request@znyx.com with the
word "subscribe" in the "Subject:" line.
-- rbaekvtm@teleport.com (Rich Baek)
</a>.

<a href="http://warrior.com ">
the Road Warrior Outpost
for Laptop & Notebook Computers
by Jeff Hosilyk
"mailto:warrior@warrior.com" voice:1-800-274-4277 ext
112</a>.

<a href="http://www.apple.com">
"Apple has a fax-back list of "approved" cards that work with
the PCMCIA Adapter Module."
-- brad@eclipse.net
</a>.

Windows NT 3.51 Compatibility
A list of hardware that has been tested for PCMCIA
compatibility (X86 platform only) with Windows NT 3.51 can be
found at
 <A
HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/NTServer/hcl/nts14200.htm">
under the PCMCIA Tested Hardware button.</a>
--Markus Duda <duda@axpmgr.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

OS/2 Compatibility
  IBM publishes an "OS/2 Hardware Compatibility List" which
you can
obtain by calling 1-800-426-4579 in the US and Canada or 1-
708-296-6767
Internationally.
--Dana L. Beatty dana_beatty@bocaraton.ibm.com

USR modem users can get support by sending email to
  support@usr.com

Roger C. Pao runs a list server:
List server: "Send a one line message "info" to
<listserv@paonet.org>. Subject line is ignored.  Do not
append a .signature to the message."
This list server has files on:
PCMCIA SCSI Bus Toaster
PCMCIA LiveWire Ethernet LAN
PCMCIA Toast-n-Jam Multimedia Combo Sound/SCSI
PCMCIA drivers for Linux

<a href="http://www.newmediacorp.com">
New Media Corporation
voice: 714-453-0100
Fax: 714-453-0114
BBS: 714-453-0214
Technical Support:              714-453-0314
Technical Support Fax:          714-453-0614
Fax-On-Demand:                  714-789-5212
CompuServe:                     GO NEWMEDIA
Internet E-Mail:                support@newmediacorp.com
CompuServe E-Mail:              72662.1032@compuserve.com
-- "Roger C. Pao [NMC]" <rpao@newmediacorp.com>
</a>.

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Subject: G. Legal Mumbo-Jumbo.
Q: Is legal mumbo-jumbo like the following really necessary ?


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