X4x SD Card Reader

[akao]

Hi,

I have a couple of questions abou the SD Card Reader on the X40 (probably applies to X41 as well):

- What is the maximum capacity for the SD Card Reader?
- What is the maxium capacity to BOOT from the SD?
- When you put the SD car in the slot, does the SD card stick out or is it flush? I want to leave a SD card permanently in the slot if possible.



Thanks.

[Yotam]

- What is the maximum capacity for the SD Card Reader?
- What is the maxium capacity to BOOT from the SD?
- When you put the SD car in the slot, does the SD card stick out or is it flush? I want to leave a SD card permanently in the slot if possible.

I own an X41T, but I think they're all the same in this, so:
1. I don't know.
2. You can't boot from it. It's a PCMCIA device (somewhere inside it connected through the PCMCIA controller, and it cannot be booted.
3. It flushes, like in most of the PDAs. You can leave it there.

[tvi55]

Hi,
- What is the maximum capacity for the SD Card Reader?
- What is the maxium capacity to BOOT from the SD?
- When you put the SD car in the slot, does the SD card stick out or is it flush? I want to leave a SD card permanently in the slot if possible.

On my X41 I can read/write SD-Cards with 1 GB (I don't have larger ones). As mentioned above, booting is not possible and the card nearly disappers inside the thinkpad.

[akao]

Thanks so much. I'm trying to see if I can speed up my laptop by placing the often used program files on the SD card instead of the hard drive.

[Yotam]

Hmmm... Tell us your results when you have them.
I think you may have a problem because of the flash cards "lifetime" problem. You should hope your SD card will not die after some time.