Dell Latitude E6500 and SDHC?

From what I've read, it *should* work, but the computer does not recognize a 32GB SDHC card that reads fine on other computers and my PDA.
I've installed the latest driver available from Dell and the XP hotfix, restarted the computer, but whenever I try, I get a "device cannot start" error in the device manager.
A regular 2GB SD card reads fine.

 

Wouldn't happen to be using 64bit XP would you?

 

Nope, good old 32bit.

 

After some further research, I noticed that the Dell's card reader seems to be run by a generic SD host controller, not by the Ricoh one, which is also listed in the device manager.
The driver for the card with that controller is from 2002!
But I can't figure out how to get rid of that controller, and have the Ricoh take over instead.

Any ideas?

 

actually (i think), its the XP that can't run your 32gb sd card...
coz vista and win7 runs 32 & 64gb sd card from my card reader

 

16GB SDHC works fine on my E6400 with 32 bit XP. I haven't got any 32GB cards to try.

Device Manager should list a Ricoh SD/MMC Host Controller under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers and also a SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller under Secure Digital Host Controllers. You can find the Ricoh controller driver under the E6500 downloads.

John

 

Okay, after some marathon research yesterday, I finally got it to work.

I had both the Ricoh and the SDA standard compliant SD Host controller listed. The Ricoh was up to date, but apparently not "driving" the card reader. The SDA (which was doing the controlling for the card reader) had a 2002 driver.
After trying countless things, I finally manually updated the SDA host controller with the Ricoh drivers. Now I have two Ricoh host controllers listed, but my card reader is finally able to read SDHC cards.
Not sure if that was the correct way to go, but nothing else worked.

 

Hi, what do you mean when you say you manually updated the SDA host controller with the Ricoh drivers? I downloaded the Ricoh driver and installed it, but my SD card reader is still not working. How do you have 2 Ricoh host controllers listed?

 

in the device manager, t I hahed Ricoh SD/MMC Host Controller under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers and also a SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller under Secure Digital Host Controllers.

When I installed the Ricoh driver update, it didn't change anything for my SD card reader, and I noticed it was controlled by the outdated SDA Host controller and made no use of the Ricoh driver.

So I manually updated the SDA Host controller with the Ricoh driver, using the "update driver" function in device manager, (and it then showed up as a second Ricoh Host Controller in device manager), and bingo! I could now read and write to SDHC cards.

I hope this helps!