topic PCG-505g & PC CardBus in PCs & Accessories

PCG-505g & PC CardBus

fritzard — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:17:09 GMT

The 505g PC card slot is described as TypeII CardBus compatible but the manual gives virtually no further detail. I would like to add a TypeII (32 bit ?) CardBus hardrive (& possibly other features) using this slot. Being the UK I can't 'try before I buy' so does anyone know if this will this be an expensive mistake? Are all CardBuses equal? Thanks

Re: PCG-505g & PC CardBus

seb21__ — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:23:54 GMT

Yes, your VAIO supports Type2 32Bit. But compare the minimum hardware configuration. Your VAIO is not much fast for this time.

http://www.vaio-link.com/specifications/specifications.asp?l=de&m=7

Re: PCG-505g & PC CardBus

Stephanius — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:01:54 GMT

32bit PCMCIA slots were standard before Sony even started to make Notebooks. If you have a PCMCIA card problem its not due to this. I would not invest in accessory these days for a PCG-505G from 1998. It makes much more sense to buy a new system or save the money for a new system.

Storage that fits into the PCMCIA slot is usually expensive because of miniaturisation, or ages old and doesnt have any storage capacity worth mentioning today.

Re: PCG-505g & PC CardBus

fritzard — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 18:10:41 GMT

Thanks for the info. but the 505 is perfect for the jobs it has to do -performance is not really an issue. It just needs more disk space & I don't want to open it up and risk damaging it to replace the drive. I had considered getting an external firewire harddisk ,but it sort of defeats the point of having a really portable notebook which even my wife is happy to carry about.

Re: PCG-505g & PC CardBus

kee-lo_ — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 18:17:20 GMT

Archos do some really small 20GB firewire disks now