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We are looking for a way to plug a SD card into a PCI slot without going through a USB interface. We want to read the SD card's serial number directly and issue SD commands.
The Chumby and the Google Android G1 phones both have SD slots that you can read from Linux without going through USB, but the Chumby only has a single SD card that's used for booting, and the G1 doesn't have any other reasonable storage if you use the SD card for that purpose. I'd really like a desktop with a few SD slots that are directly accessible.
Anybody know of anything??
Unfortunately, that doesn't work. That is a USB interface with a multi-function reader, but the reader converts the SD to USB, then relies on a USB driver. I need something that doesn't work with Windows unless special drivers are loaded. – vy32 – 2010-02-23T08:19:03.587
Wait, what? You need something that doesn't work without drivers? I need to understand this better as there may be another way of handling this problem.
For what it's worth if you can find a SD to PCMCIA (PC Card) adapter, there are PCCard -> PCI adapters. – Broam – 2010-03-15T13:43:04.013