User manual SONY VAIO VPC-EB23FX/WI

[. . . ] 6 CardWare ® 5. 0 Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Additional PC Card Support Resources . . . . . . . . . 7 Compaq PC Card Solutions Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Frequently Asked Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] CardBus is based on the widely accepted PCMCIA Association industry standard for 32-bit PC Cards. These devices are able to take advantage of Due to the way direct enablers are designed, they can compromise system integrity and render other PC Cards unusable. Compaq recommends caution when using direct enablers. 1 WHITE PAPER (cont. ) . . 4 internal bus speeds that can be as much as four to six times faster than with 16-bit PC Cards in certain configurations. CardBus devices continue to use the same, well known, PC Card form factor and support many of the features that make PC Cards ideally suited to the portable platform such as hot swapping support. CardBus is not inherently supported by Windows NT 4. 0, but is supported on Compaq portable platforms through CardWare® 5. 0. CARDBUS FEATURES & BENEFITS Feature Uses PC Card form factor Benefit Provides the benefits of higher performance in the convenient form factor users have come to expect from the PC Card standard. Portable platforms with PC Card slots that are CardBus enabled also allow backward compatibility for 16-bit PC Cards. Extends battery life in most configurations. Provides up to 132MB per second peak transfer rates to support high performance peripherals such as 100Mbps Ethernet network interface cards and up to 40Mbps Ultra SCSI PC Card interfaces. Reduces processor overhead improving overall system performance. 3. 3 volt power consumption 33MHz PCI Bus Bus mastering capability Table 2 - CardBus features & benefits summary Enhanced Power Management Standby and hibernation states are important power saving features portable users rely on to conserve battery power. Under Windows NT 4. 0 PC Card devices are not able to respond to power management events such as entering standby mode. 5 Automatic configuration of CardBus PC Cards under CardWare® 5. 0 version 2. 1 requires software driver support from the card vendor. Contact your PC Card vendor directly for information on level of support for automatic configuration. 6 Hot PC Card removal under CardWare® 5. 0 is supported for modem, ATA, SRAM and Flash PC Cards. Hot removal for LAN, SCSI and CardBus type PC Cards is only available under CardWare® 5. 0 if there is card specific driver support for this feature. Contact your PC Card vendor directly for information on the level of support for hot removal. 7 Windows NT 4. 0 does not support ring resume. 10 LAN cards under CardWare® 5. 0 do not support hot removal without card-specific software driver support. Consequently, resuming from standby or hibernation mode may lead to unexpected results. Compaq does not recommend using standby and hibernation with a LAN card under CardWare® 5. 0. 11 SCSI cards under CardWare® 5. 0 do not support hot removal without card-specific software driver support. Consequently, resuming from standby or hibernation mode may lead to unexpected results. [. . . ] Standard PC Cards are vendor-tested in the Compaq PC Card Solutions Lab on the latest Compaq portable platforms. The Standard List is a useful resource for customers looking for a PC Card solution proven on a specific portable computer running a specific operating system. The PC Card Solutions Program is yet another way Compaq delivers on it promise to provide the most usable and reliable Windows NT 4. 0 PC Card support in the industry. Available 3Q97. CardWare® 5. 0 is currently being preinstalled on the Armada 7800, Armada 7700, Armada 7300 Armada 1500. [. . . ]