Pepe Benitez wrote:
>    I've been looking for memory, and i have found that compact flash
>    and smartmedia are different, how are they different ?
>    where could i find a good document about it (specs, protocols,
> ...)?
SmartMedia is basically a FLASH chip in a different package - a "smart card"
like thing. A Compactflash card has an onboard controller that makes it
emulate an IDE (ATA) hard disk drive. CF also has functions for hardware
password protection - IIRC a lot of PC hard drives don't actually support
this function (it's in the ATA spec) as it is very rarely used.

Later.
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