Data logging

[Andy Laurence]

>As for data logging, for a school project, we are about to finish up an
>MP3 player.  We ended up using a compact flash card, with a PCMCIA adaptor
>(all the compact flash card sockets I've found were surface mount), and a
>PCMCIA socket.  Was a lot easier than I expected to have 16 meg of
>storage.  Using the dos file structure was a bit of a pain, but if all you
>want to do is read and write a large number of 512 byte chunks, than this
>is easier than you might think.  If there is enough interest, I'll try to
>type up some notes when the class is over.

I've noticed that most people looking for 5-50Mb of storage space seem to go 
with cf or smartmedia.  I know cf is VERY similar to an IDE interface, but 
is there any reason why people don't use those tiny Clik cards from Iomega?  
They're 40Mb and cost very little (certainly less than smartmedia or compact 
flash).  Seems sensible to me ... any thoughts on this?

Andy

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