From: Jens Arnold <arnold-j_at_t-online.de>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 08:47:10 +0200

Hello Rocker

On 21.05.2005, you wrote:

> Hi rockerboxer's!

> Thanks to a kind and generous gentleman (no offence Kristi
> smile) I will soon have an Ondio FM and THAT'S IT, NO MORE!
> lol! Now that I am really broke, I need some help finding a
> great deal on a MMC card. 1 gig real cheap would be nice. Any
> ideas of a source that will sell to Canada??

> In addition, I have checked out good old EBay where I have
> seen some USB 2.0 MMC card readers. Does that mean that I
> could transfer music to the MMC via USB 2.0 _at_ 480 kbs and then
> plug it into the Ondio? Or, is the transfer rate determined by
> the card itself thus making it redundant to purchase the USB
> 2.0 MMC card reader??

The speed is mostly determined by the card. USB 1.1 runs at 12
MBit/s and MMC itself can do 20 MBit/s so using an USB 2.0 card
reader will roughly double the speed. I'd still recomment using
one for larger capacity cards like 1 GB, since these card
readers are really cheap.

Regards, Jens

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