Re: [iPAQ] SD Card protocol specs

From: Russell Nelson <nelson.a.t.crynwr.com>
Date: Tue Feb 25 2003 - 16:29:07 EST

Steven Reddie writes:
> Does anyone know where there are specs on the SD Card? www.sdcard.org
> doesn't seem to have make them available to non-members. The flash chips
> contains blocks of 512-bytes and associated with each block is a further
> 16-bytes of bookkeeping data. I'm specifically wondering if this metadata
> in each flash sector is accessible from outside the card.

Nope, and they also impose a non-disclosure on members. For some
reason, they don't want people to use their hardware. So, okay, we
won't.

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Received on Tue Feb 25 21:29:11 2003

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