Ricoh PCI to SD device?

[David Gilbert]

>>>>> "Brooks" == Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net> writes:

Brooks> On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 11:12:30AM -0500, David Gilbert wrote:
>> Has anyone had a look at the following:
>> 
>> none1 at pci3:1:2: class=0x080501 card=0x01aa1028 chip=0x08221180
>> rev=0x17 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Ricoh Co Ltd' device = 'SD Bus Host
>> Adapter' class = base peripheral
>> 
>> This shows up on my new Dell XPS-170 laptop.  Since there is no USB
>> attachment for the SD card reader, I can only surmise that this is
>> it.  Is someone looking at this, or is this completely new?

Brooks> People are looking at it, but there are no docs available.
Brooks> Apparently, there is some work being done to reverse engineer
Brooks> it.  Linux doesn't support it either.

Wasn't there a disk extension to project evil?

Dave.

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