Supported microSD cards

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| Patriot ||  PSF128MCSD-RC || 128MB || ? || {{no}} || ?
 
| Patriot ||  PSF128MCSD-RC || 128MB || ? || {{no}} || ?
 
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| Kingston || SD-C512 || 512MB || ? || {{maybe}} || {{yes}}
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| Kingston || SD-C512 || 512MB || ? || {{no}} || {{yes}}
 
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| Kingston || SD-C01G || 1GB || ? || {{yes}} || ?
 
| Kingston || SD-C01G || 1GB || ? || {{yes}} || ?
 
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The '''maybe''' entry refers to a card that seems to work, but causes u-boot to print a large number of MMC timeout messages.
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Note that cards with a '''no''' may still work at times, but that we just have found their behaviour too erratic to consider acceptable.
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(Also note that this is a bug in u-boot. The cards are probably fine.)

Revision as of 03:39, 14 February 2007

There is a plethora of Transflash / microSD cards out there.

At this point, we can recommand Sandisk cards, since they seem to cause the least amount of trouble.


cards by vendor

Vendor Model Capacity Speed u-boot 1.1.6 linux 2.6.17.14-fic5
SanDisk SDSDQ-128 128MB yes yes
SanDisk unknown 512MB yes yes
SanDisk SDSDQ-1024-E10M 1024MB yes yes
SanDisk SDSDQU-2048-E10M 2048MB yes yes
PNY P-MICROSD512-BX 512MB yes yes
Intuix IXMSDM128B60X 128MB 60x no yes
Verbatim 47225 1024MB no yes
vox-fon 1 GB 1024MB no yes
hama 55371 256MB no yes
Corsair CMFSDMICRO-512 512MB no yes
extreMemory AE56-1280R 128MB no yes
extreMemory H256MS05 256MB 60x no yes
Toshiba SD-512R2W 512MB no yes
Transcend TS128MUSD 128MB no yes
Transcend TS256MUSD80 256MB 80x no yes
Patriot PSF128MCSD-RC 128MB  ? no  ?
Kingston SD-C512 512MB  ? no yes
Kingston SD-C01G 1GB  ? yes  ?

Note that cards with a no may still work at times, but that we just have found their behaviour too erratic to consider acceptable. (Also note that this is a bug in u-boot. The cards are probably fine.)

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There is a plethora of Transflash / microSD cards out there.

At this point, we can recommand Sandisk cards, since they seem to cause the least amount of trouble.


cards by vendor

Vendor Model Capacity Speed u-boot 1.1.6 linux 2.6.17.14-fic5
SanDisk SDSDQ-128 128MB yes yes
SanDisk unknown 512MB yes yes
SanDisk SDSDQ-1024-E10M 1024MB yes yes
SanDisk SDSDQU-2048-E10M 2048MB yes yes
PNY P-MICROSD512-BX 512MB yes yes
Intuix IXMSDM128B60X 128MB 60x no yes
Verbatim 47225 1024MB no yes
vox-fon 1 GB 1024MB no yes
hama 55371 256MB no yes
Corsair CMFSDMICRO-512 512MB no yes
extreMemory AE56-1280R 128MB no yes
extreMemory H256MS05 256MB 60x no yes
Toshiba SD-512R2W 512MB no yes
Transcend TS128MUSD 128MB no yes
Transcend TS256MUSD80 256MB 80x no yes
Patriot PSF128MCSD-RC 128MB  ? no  ?
Kingston SD-C512 512MB  ? no yes
Kingston SD-C01G 1GB  ? yes  ?

Note that cards with a no may still work at times, but that we just have found their behaviour too erratic to consider acceptable. (Also note that this is a bug in u-boot. The cards are probably fine.)