5600 Secure Digital Compatibility- any success stories? Options

[TonyOlsen]

ChrisZaurus, So you ARE able to get an Ambicom SD Wireless card working on the Zaurus? I didn't think anyone had gotten anything, other than flat memory, working on the SD slots of their Zauri. Tell me more!

[raduga]

ChrisZaurus, So you ARE able to get an Ambicom SD Wireless card working on the Zaurus?  I didn't think anyone had gotten anything, other than flat memory, working on the SD slots of their Zauri.  Tell me more!

Nope.

It's an ambicom wifi CF card (check his .sig).

Without someone willing to send mega-bucks to the SD consortium
for proprietary API specs (and willing to keep those APIs secret)
we're never going to see any SDIO devices on any Zaurii.

Additionally, some models of Zaurus don't even have SDIO leads
brought out to the card connectors - it's rumored that some do,
but even that isn't conclusive.

possibly there's some hope that a commercial vendor will research which models have hardware support, and which don't, and sell a driver/card bundle that works, but it seems like a lot of effort and expense on their part, for a very small market.

What would be *the* killer SD device, were it possible?
Wifi? video out? gps? something else?

If we're lucky, we may only get one shot.

[TonyOlsen]

Thanks. =) (Sorry I missed his sig)

I'd say "wifi", but it seems like all future Zauri will come with Wifi built in. After Wifi, I'd say "Video out".

[fencingfish]

No problem with the 5600. I just got it a few weeks ago and pretty much
use it to keep my server info and passwords handy. Popped in the SD card and no problems. It may seem there was apermission problem but nothing major.

[cgrieves]

Actually my understanding was that the permission problem is a symptom of card incompatibility, i.e. the card goes "read only" and needs to be dismounted, ejected and reinserted.