[NTLUG:Discuss] SD cards and Linux

Terry Henderson trryhend at gmail.com
Sat Jul 1 20:59:45 CDT 2006


On 7/1/06, Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net> wrote:
> Thinking about buying an SD card for my camera (Concord 3346x) because
> the USB connection isn't recognized by Linux and I would like to get
> away from having to boot Windows just to upload pictures.  Before I do I
> want to see if anyone has experience indicating that this would work.
> Concord (the manufacturer) says that the camera is compatible with Mac
> OS X via the SD card, what I don't know is if Linux and Mac OS X are
> close enough to one another to consider this a good indication that
> things will work.
>
> Googling I found posts that indicated Linux had no problem accessing SC
> cards via USB-based readers but I also saw other posts indicating the
> opposite.
>
> I found an MMC/SD for Linux site that indicated SD card support is being
> included in kernel 2.6.14+ but I am on 2.6.9 (CentOS 4.3).  I also
> learned that the SD technology owners have very recently (may 2006)
> released the SD specification (or at least part of it) but that
> apparently some under NDA didn't honor that and the details have been
> known for a while.  I have also seen an article stating that a SanDisk
> card reader worked fine on Linux allowing access to pictures stored on
> it but it was a different camera.
>
> Can anyone provide any information on this?  Does it work?  Are there
> considerations I must take into account?
>
> Thanks for any replies.

Use a card reader.

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