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little memory card slot
I have a slot for a little memory card (I can't remember what they are
called) in my laptop. a Dell Latittude E4300, running win7, and the computer doesn't seem to know it's there. Is there some way I disabled it? I have one in the Acer Aspire running XP, and that always knew it was there. |
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On 04/09/2018 01:18 PM, micky wrote:
I have a slot for a little memory card (I can't remember what they are called) in my laptop. a Dell Latittude E4300, running win7, and the computer doesn't seem to know it's there. Is there some way I disabled it? I have one in the Acer Aspire running XP, and that always knew it was there. SD is the norm for laptops etc. Micro SD is what go into phones. You can get an adapter to allow you to put the tiny micro SD card into a larger SD adapter and then into your Laptop. Look in device manager and see if there are any ! next to the device (or any device like unknown). You might be missing drivers. Have you verified the memory card is good? Have you tried another card or put the same in another machine? |
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On 04/09/2018 01:35 PM, Big Al wrote:
On 04/09/2018 01:18 PM, micky wrote: I have a slot for a little memory card (I can't remember what they are called) in my laptop. a Dell Latittude E4300, running win7, and the computer doesn't seem to know it's there. Is there some way I disabled it? I have one in the Acer Aspire running XP, and that always knew it was there. SD is the norm for laptops etc.Â* Micro SD is what go into phones. You can get an adapter to allow you to put the tiny micro SD card into a larger SD adapter and then into your Laptop. Look in device manager and see if there are any ! next to the device (or any device like unknown).Â* You might be missing drivers. Have you verified the memory card is good?Â*Â* Have you tried another card or put the same in another machine? https://www.diffen.com/difference/MicroSD_vs_SD_Card and from the pics here, it's even written on the card "micro". And I'm not interested in the article but the first picture shows the two side by side very well. http://www.tested.com/tech/photograp...ead-full-size/ |
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little memory card slot
micky wrote:
I have a slot for a little memory card (I can't remember what they are called) in my laptop. a Dell Latittude E4300, running win7, and the computer doesn't seem to know it's there. Is there some way I disabled it? I have one in the Acer Aspire running XP, and that always knew it was there. ( DMESG dump from http://natisbad.org/E4300/index.html ) SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter https://www.e-devices.ricoh.co.jp/en...cif/pcc/5c821/ "It seems that my Ricoh R5C822 SD card reader supports SDHC (class 4) as well!" SDSC (SD): 1 MB to 2 GB, some 4 GB were made SDHC: 2 GB to 32 GB SDXC: 32 GB to 2 TB That suggests 32GB might be the largest SD you could plug in. The Ricoh site didn't leave a datasheet for me to look at, only the package outline document ("chip scale package" or CSP). The bug trail here in Linux for the thing, probably is a matter of not waiting long enough on a write. A delay_write failure on Windows might be on the order of 5 seconds or longer. You can get delay_write failures on older Windows, if the OS runs out of some flavor of "pool". https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/247819 Anyway, keep looking for a datasheet for the R5C822 to see whether the SD really is an SDHC controller. I think the best I have in the house here is SDHC, don't have an SDXC yet. And the one SDHC I bought, is a 32GB one. It's too bad the slot just didn't say underneath "32GB" so we'd know. Paul |
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In message , Big Al
writes: On 04/09/2018 01:18 PM, micky wrote: I have a slot for a little memory card (I can't remember what they are called) in my laptop. a Dell Latittude E4300, running win7, and the computer doesn't seem to know it's there. Is there some way I disabled it? I have one in the Acer Aspire running XP, and that always knew it was there. SD is the norm for laptops etc. Micro SD is what go into phones. Agreed. Sometimes called SDHC, but that refers to the capacity not the shape. About the shape and size of a standard UK postage stamp, with one corner cut off. You can get an adapter to allow you to put the tiny micro SD card into a larger SD adapter and then into your Laptop. Poundshops often sell SD card readers (look like memory sticks with a slot) that come with such adapters; might be cheaper than just the adapter on its own! Or, they often (sometimes it seems like "most") come with a micro-SD card. Look in device manager and see if there are any ! next to the device (or any device like unknown). You might be missing drivers. Certainly, if the machine wasn't bought new, and there's any reason to suspect that Windows has been reinstalled at any time, it's quite possible for the relevant driver not to have been installed. I think under some circumstances, hardware for which no driver has been installed may not show up _at all_ - rather than just with a ! - in Device Manager. It's also possible (I think it's a setting in Windows, but may be hardware-specific) for the reader not to show up when there's no (working) card in it. Have you verified the memory card is good? Have you tried another card or put the same in another machine? Good questions. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Nunc Tutus Exitus Computarus (It is now safe to turn off your computer). |
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