Supported microSD cards

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

Earlier, Sandisk cards were recommended, since they seemed to cause the least amount of trouble.

There has been a bug in the SD device driver (s3cmci) which caused some troubles. Please make sure you use a recent kernel which applies our kernel patchset rev2832 or higher.

Booting from SDHC requires a u-boot from 2008-07-23 or later.

Cards by Vendor

Vendor Model Capacity Speed u-boot 1.1.6 linux 2.6.17.14-fic5 u-boot 1.2.0-moko8 svn1915
A-Data microSDHC-8GB 8GB (SDHC) class 4  ? yes  ?
Corsair CMFSDMICRO-512 512MB no yes
extreMemory AE56-1280R 128MB no yes yes
extreMemory H256MS05 256MB 60x no yes yes
hama 55371 256MB no yes yes
Intuix IXMSDM128B60X 128MB 60x no yes yes
Kingston SD-C512 512MB  ? no yes
Kingston SD-C01G 1GB  ? yes  ?
Kingston SD-C02G 2GB  ?  ? yes
Patriot PSF128MCSD-RC 128MB  ? no  ?
PNY P-MICROSD512-BX 512MB yes yes yes
Pretec 128MB  ?  ? yes
SanDisk SDSDQ-128 128MB yes yes yes
SanDisk unknown 256MB yes yes yes
SanDisk unknown 512MB yes yes
SanDisk SDSDQ-1024-E10M 1GB yes yes yes
SanDisk SDSDQU-2048-E10M 2GB yes yes yes
SanDisk SDSDQ-4096-E11M 4GB (SDHC)  ? yes  ?
SanDisk SDSDQ-6144-E11M 6GB (SDHC)  ? yes no
SanDisk SDSDQ-8192-E11M 7GB (SDHC) 4  ? yes  ?
SanDisk SDSDQY-8192-A11M 8GB (SDHC)  ? yes  ?
SanDisk SDSDQR-8192-E12M 8GB (SDHC) 4  ? yes  ?
Toshiba SD-512R2W 512MB no yes
Transcend TS128MUSD 128MB no yes
Transcend TS256MUSD80 256MB 80x no yes yes
Transcend TS512MUSD 512MB no yes yes
Transcend MM4GRO1GUACY 1GB  ? yes  ?
Verbatim 47225 1GB no yes yes
vox-fon 1 GB 1GB no yes
(Intenso)  ? 4GB (SDHC) no yes (Some work needed to get it running, see #1743) u-boot from August, 2nd (1.3.1) boots fine)

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 our version of u-boot. The cards are probably fine.)

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

Earlier, Sandisk cards were recommended, since they seemed to cause the least amount of trouble.

There has been a bug in the SD device driver (s3cmci) which caused some troubles. Please make sure you use a recent kernel which applies our kernel patchset rev2832 or higher.

Booting from SDHC requires a u-boot from 2008-07-23 or later.

Cards by Vendor

Vendor Model Capacity Speed u-boot 1.1.6 linux 2.6.17.14-fic5 u-boot 1.2.0-moko8 svn1915
A-Data microSDHC-8GB 8GB (SDHC) class 4  ? yes  ?
Corsair CMFSDMICRO-512 512MB no yes
extreMemory AE56-1280R 128MB no yes yes
extreMemory H256MS05 256MB 60x no yes yes
hama 55371 256MB no yes yes
Intuix IXMSDM128B60X 128MB 60x no yes yes
Kingston SD-C512 512MB  ? no yes
Kingston SD-C01G 1GB  ? yes  ?
Kingston SD-C02G 2GB  ?  ? yes
Patriot PSF128MCSD-RC 128MB  ? no  ?
PNY P-MICROSD512-BX 512MB yes yes yes
Pretec 128MB  ?  ? yes
SanDisk SDSDQ-128 128MB yes yes yes
SanDisk unknown 256MB yes yes yes
SanDisk unknown 512MB yes yes
SanDisk SDSDQ-1024-E10M 1GB yes yes yes
SanDisk SDSDQU-2048-E10M 2GB yes yes yes
SanDisk SDSDQ-4096-E11M 4GB (SDHC)  ? yes  ?
SanDisk SDSDQ-6144-E11M 6GB (SDHC)  ? yes no
SanDisk SDSDQ-8192-E11M 7GB (SDHC) 4  ? yes  ?
SanDisk SDSDQY-8192-A11M 8GB (SDHC)  ? yes  ?
SanDisk SDSDQR-8192-E12M 8GB (SDHC) 4  ? yes  ?
Toshiba SD-512R2W 512MB no yes
Transcend TS128MUSD 128MB no yes
Transcend TS256MUSD80 256MB 80x no yes yes
Transcend TS512MUSD 512MB no yes yes
Transcend MM4GRO1GUACY 1GB  ? yes  ?
Verbatim 47225 1GB no yes yes
vox-fon 1 GB 1GB no yes
(Intenso)  ? 4GB (SDHC) no yes (Some work needed to get it running, see #1743) u-boot from August, 2nd (1.3.1) boots fine)

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 our version of u-boot. The cards are probably fine.)