anybody know of any links that show how to interface a smartmedia card to a Arduino?...I have a bunch of these from the old days of digital cameras....any help would be nice....thanks
A quick Google search turned up this pinout: SmartMedia Card Pinout, PC SmartMedia Card Memory Module Pin Out
Basically it's an 8-bit parallel Toshiba NAND FLASH chip in a card. If you can figure out how to read and write a FLASH chip you can probably read and write the Smartmedia card. Look for the K9S1208V0M (64Mx8 Smartmedia card) datasheet for instructions.
It is exactly the same as a Nand flash chip, I'm just finishing off a library for interfacing Nand-flash chips.
http://hardcoreforensics.com/arduino-mega-direct-reading-of-a-nand-flash-memory-chip#more-1191
You will be lucky if you can get this sort of thing working without a logic analyzer, there seems to be all sorts of funky things going on, either on the Arduino board or inside the compiler, I had to resort to some really silly code ideas to get it working.
HC