From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760156AbYDNQLS (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:11:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754394AbYDNQLG (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:11:06 -0400 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:56129 "EHLO caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752774AbYDNQLF (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:11:05 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:11:05 -0400 To: Alexia Death Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Problem: non-SDHC 2GB SD cards are unreadable Message-ID: <20080414161105.GA7387@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <200804132326.07713.alexiadeath@gmail.com> <200804140245.33171.arnd@arndb.de> <200804140749.57049.alexiadeath@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200804140749.57049.alexiadeath@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 07:49:56AM +0300, Alexia Death wrote: > Yes, Ive come to a conclusion that because reader does not do anything about > the speciality of the 2GB cards they wont be readable because Linux usb > storage does not know about them either. The reader in my wife's old laptop (Compaq R3240) would not work with 1gB or 2GB cards, but would work with 512MB and smaller. It would detect the card but have random contents displayed and certainly wouldn't read. An SD reader in a USB printer on the other hand connected to the same machine read all the cards fine. There certainly are some misdesigned SD readers out there that fail with larger cards due to having made invalid assumptions. Sounds like that particular readers is junk and belongs in the trash. :) -- Len Sorensen