Although the manuals for our products give specification for the optional memory cards that can be used to store data, presets, upgrades, etc., we thought it would be useful to create this technote to put the information in one location. In addition to the generic information in the manual, if you have information that might be helpful and care to share it with other users, please email us and we'll add it here. In particular, it would be valuable to know of specific brands or parts that claim to meet the spec but don't work in the product.
These products use "Compact Flash" cards only. The following cards are known to work (taken from Page 55 of the Version 3 product manual).
| Manufacturer | Product | Capacity |
| SST | SST48CF008 | 8M |
| SST | SST48CF016 | 16M |
| Kingston | CF/8 CE | 8M |
| New Media | NMT00710 | 8M |
| IBM | 1GB Microdrive | 1G |
| SanDisk | SDCFB | 16M |
| SanDisk | SDCFB | 256M |
The H8000 supports PCMCIA Type 1 Static RAM (SRAM) cards from 128KB to 4MB or PCMCIA ATA cards. In addition, if you use a PCMCIA adaptor, you can use Compact Flash. Microdrive support is untested and not guaranteed.
For H8000 and H8000A CF cards we recommend Sandisk. We find Viking (branded LEXAR or CANON) to be good but some problems have been reported with PC card readers. Verbatim cards do NOT work.
Note: To UPGRADE these products, you must use a Compact Flash card and adaptor ONLY.
These products use PCMCIA Type 1 Static RAM (SRAM) cards from 128KB to 4MB. Note that attempts to use flash cards are doomed to failure. PCMCIA ATA cards are also unsupported.
No card support
| The battery in the PCMCIA SRAM card must be good to save data. To preserve data while changing batteries, do it while the card is plugged into the Harmonizer and the Harmonizer is operating. |
| Non-rechargeable PCMCIA SRAM cards should have their batteries changed once a year. |
| Some PCMCIA SRAM cards are rechargeable and should be placed into slot of
a powered-on unit from time to time to keep them topped up. |
This page created 09 May 2005
This page updated 08 February 2007