[iyonix-support] Re: SD cards & 6-in-1 reader

On 11 Oct 2007, Dave Higton wrote:
> In message <4d55c97b4efa62972e4f.rogerarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>           Roger Darlington <rogerarm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On 5 Oct 2007, davehigton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> > Quoting John Williams <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> > 
>> >> I expect I'll end up buying a specific reader for the SD cards
>> > 
>> > If you appen to be able to find one that also does SDHC, you will
>> > be better off.  SD only goes up to 2 GB.
>> 
>> Not quite true Dave...
>> I have a 4GB SD (not SDHC) card, and it works (in my PDA which hasn't
>> got an SDHC slot, just an SD slot).
> 
> I don't know the specifications, so I'm in no position to pass
> judgement.  My source of information on SD and SDHC has been
> Wikipedia.  (You'll notice that there is a lot of commonality
> between its SD and SDHC entries.)  Wikipedia seems to suggest
> that anything of a 4 GB capacity that isn't SDHC is also not a
> "proper" SD card; it claims that there are some non-standard
> ones about.
> 

I have no doubt that it is in some way non-standard, but nethertheless 
I have managed to get 4GB of map data on it and use (all 4GB of it)  
in my Fujitsu-Siemens GPS-PDA, which (it says) does not read SDHC 
cards. So if it wasn't for the existence of 4GB 'SD-sized' cards like 
this, I would be stuck with using just 2GB of map data on it. It's a 
blessing, that works, in my case :-)

Moreover, I wrote the data on to it using an SD card reader on a WinXP 
computer, so it not only works, but works in two separate instruments, 
non-SD-compliant or not :-)

But this is getting a little off topic for Iyonix.

But hopefully before too long we might be able to read and write to 
memory cards of greater than 2GB capacity on an Iyonix, soon. 
Hopefully?



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