Re: [tlug] SD card hardware detected, cards go unnoticed.

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On 2008-01-28 19:58 +0900 (Mon), tlug@example.com wrote:

> On Monday 28 January 2008 11:39:58 Dave M G wrote:
> > $ lspci
> > CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev 88)
> > System Peripheral: Ricoh Ltd RL5c475 SD Bus Host Adapter
> 
> The results of a quick search on Google for "RL5c475" seem to indicate that 
> said hardware is the PCMCIA controller, not the SD card reader.

It's evidently an SD card reader attached to a PCMCIA controller. This
would be more or less the same thing as shoving an SD-card PCMCIA
adapter into a PCMCIA slot.

Having it attached to a PCMCIA bus rather than a USB bus can offer
advantages of higher speed and the ability to use I/O devices.

cjs
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