questions about Smartmedia FLASHPATH floppy adapters

crypticlogin

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I've had my camera for a year now and was always intrigued by those floppy disk adapters for smartmedia. From what I've read, they require some kind of interpreter driver to read the adapter, but otherwise it just acts and displays as a large removable disk? Can you write onto the media using these adapters (probably not, but hoping...)? And finally, what would happen if you put in a disk without the interpreter... what would the disk read?
 

crypticlogin

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This is primarily for a machine without USB. I have a camera with USB and if I wanted to use USB, I would just use the cable that was provided with the camera.
 

WetWilly

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I've got a SmartPath adapter. It works on a standard floppy drive (no LS120s) with a driver. It works for both reading and writing SmartMedia, but like Joony said, it's very slow - faster than a serial connection to the camera, but much slower than USB. If you're using the SmartMedia on only one machine without USB, it'd be a lot cheaper and faster to get a PCI USB card for ~$10-15 and pop it into the machine (assuming you're using Win 98 or higher). If the machine is a portable with PCMCIA slots, get a SmartMedia-to-PCMCIA adapter. I've got one of those and it's just as fast or faster than USB. Costs less than a SmartPath adapter, too and doesn't require any drivers except standard card services.