As tempted as this makes me to see if my local guru friend actually kept the 8mb SmartMedia card I gave him as useless to me (I assume he threw it out) -- this is actually a slightly dangerous idea. (I was forced to become familiar with SmartMedia, when I bought a Diamond Multimedia Rio500 MP3 player... it was the first suchh successful commercial player to use USB!)ETP wrote:At an absolute minimum with a suitable reader you could also use an old 16MB Smartmedia card as used in the original digital cameras.
The thing about SmartMedia is that, even though it looks like a large SD card (there's a reason for that! ) -- it isn't. SmartMedia cards are controllerless -- bare Flash NVRAM chips only -- and any sort of filesystem corruption or screwup can and will brick the card. I want to say that there's a Windows utility that can sometimes fix that, but I don't actually remember for sure.
That said, I might have to do that just to see what happens. If I brick the card, there's nothing really lost there.