Re: Gigabyte-class SD [or MMC or MMCplus] cards

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:24:03PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote:
> You mean it's not really useful as an organizer when running
> even the innovative pocketworkstation.com user interface?

That interface turns it into a miniature Debian system, but I haven't
found any tools that make it useful for PIM tasks, such as address book
and calendar, and syncing with a desktop machine. The Qtopia/Opie PIM
tools apparently don't work in the X11 environment unless you recompile
them yourself, and GPE was still mostly useless last time I checked
(which was a couple of months ago).

But maybe things have improved since then - if anyone can recommend
specific Debian packages please do so.

> But before I order I just want to be clear on this... if I
> get SD, I won't be able to use it if I upgrade my kernel
> past whatever Sharp gives me (can I run pocketworkstation
> and Opie and GPE with Sharp's kernel)?

pocketworkstation works with the Sharp kernel, don't know about the
others.

> I can't seem to find MMC at 2GB, so to get that cap. I'd
> have to go SD.  Kingston also mentions MMCplus but nobody
> seems to sell that.  It's supposed to be faster than MMC,
> bus then again so is SD.

Don't count on anything being faster than plain MMC, as far as I know all
the fancier modes require special driver support to work, and you don't
see any improvement with the stock driver.

-Klaus