Secure Digital on Linux

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 14:12, Cristiano Parzani wrote:
> Hi to all,
> I am interested in Secure Digital (SD) under Linux, I have read the
> previous email posted here, someone could gladly tell me where to find
> information? 

SD is a problem because the specs are fairly hard to get hold of, and
without them we don't know how to initialise the cards. 

There is some information at
http://polysat.calpoly.edu/documents_cp2/cdh/data_sheets/toshiba_m1283bx.pdf

I'm not sure if it's enough to get anything working though.

> There is already something in kernel tree, what type of
> file-system mount. I have read that SD use FAT16 on Win9x and under
> Linux is the same? 

There's only MMC support as far as I'm aware. It presents itself as a
block device and you should be able to put any type of file system on
it.

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dwmw2