Only if your operating system vendor provides drivers. Card readers and PCMCIA Linear Flash PC Cards do not come with drivers for PCMCIA Linear Flash PC Cards, it has always been the OS vendor's responsibility to include support or you will have to purchase a Card and Socket Services software package from a third party vendor.
Please see Linux PCMCIA HOWTO 4.7 PCMCIA memory cards.
For DOS and Windows 3.1X: PCMCIA Linear Flash PC Cards need a DOS version of a Card and Socket Services Program. Please check to see if you have this running, if not, contact your notebook PC vendor or card reader manufacturer. Some of the vendors listed or linked to on the PC Card support for MS Windows NT 4.0 page also make Card and Socket Services packages for other legacy Microsoft operating systems.
OMNIDriveUSB Pro LF and OMNIDrive Pro are external read-writers for PCMCIA Linear Flash, SRAM, and ATA Flash PC Cards. Their specialized software package allow Windows users to access, view, manipulate and even copy via binary images, the data on PCMCIA Memory PC Cards. For built-in PC Card slots, see our software page.
You may want to try these instructions from the 'Users of TrueFFS Flash File System for PCMCIA Cards' section of the Windows 95 CD-ROM Hardware.txt File. However, this is untested and unsupported by Synchrotech and is reproduced here as a service only.
Users of TrueFFS Flash File System for PCMCIA Cards. The MS-DOS or Windows 3.1 versions of the TrueFFS driver will not work with the Windows 95 PCMCIA driver. To work with FTL formatted Linear Flash PCMCIA cards when the Windows 95 PCMCIA driver is enabled, you must install a new Windows 95 device driver provided by M-Systems. To do this, carry out the following procedure:
NOTE: If M-Systems is not shown in the list, click Have Disk, and then insert the M-Systems Windows 95 installation disk and follow the instructions on your screen.
Otherwise, you may want to locate a Card and Socket Services software vendor for Windows 95. Some of the vendors listed or linked to on the PC Card support for MS Windows NT 4.0 page also make Card and Socket Services packages for other legacy Microsoft operating systems.
The following information may be of use with Windows 95:
For NT 3.51 and 4.0: You need a NT version of a Card and Socket Services software program on your system. Please contact your notebook PC vendor or card reader manufacturer. Please see our PC Card support for MS Windows NT 4.0 FAQ page for more information.
Use the drivers supply by Windows 98. These drivers are located in the following directory in the Windows 98 CDROM:
\drivers\storage\ftl\trueffs.inf
to install these drivers, do this:
The following information may be of use with Windows 98:
The instructions above for Windows 98 should work with 98 Second Edition. However, this is untested and unsupported by Synchrotech and is reproduced here as a service only.
The MS-DOS or Windows 3.1 version of the TrueFFS driver does not work with the Windows Millennium PCMCIA driver. To work with FTL-formatted Linear Flash PCMCIA cards in Windows Millennium, install the device driver provided by M-Systems.
To install the device driver:
Your PCMCIA Linear Flash PC Cards and SRAM cards will now function. For more information see Microsoft's Windows Millennium Edition Hardware.txt File page.
Please see Windows 2000 Work Around for PC Card Linear Flash and SRAM. The best solution is an OMNIDrive either in USB or Parallel versions. See Windows Readers for PCMCIA Linear Flash and SRAM PC Card Memory for more information.
Please see Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista Solutions for PCMCIA SRAM and Linear Flash PC Cards.
For devices that don't support the full Card Services standard, this CIS-like 2K or 8K storage tuple essentially informs the device what type of card has been inserted and in cases of storage cards, the capacity of the card. SRAM and Linear Flash are examples of cards that are available with or without a 2K or 8K Attribute. Types of devices that require attribute are usually lab equipment, embedded systems, PDAs and the like. For the most part, notebook computers support Card Services, and hence don't require attribute. When in question, check your device's documentation or contact you device manufacturer.
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