SDHC problems with Dell E1505

I just bought a 4Gb ADATA Turbo Flash Class 6 SDHC card.
the card works fine in my Samsung NV camera.
I cannot seem to get it to be recognized in my Dell E1505 laptop.
I am using the integrated memory card reader.

The chipset driver for the memory reader is the Ricoh R5C832.
Dell's website has the same version driver which my laptop has and the sdhc card is not recognized.

Any response would be greatly appreciated.

K-TRON

 

It is very possible that the card reader is not SDHC compatible.

 

I checked Ricoh's site and it did not say SDHC anywhere, so I guess it is unsupported.

Oh well, I guess I can still use the card. I am just going to have to use the cable which connects my camera to the usb port on my computer everytime I need to transfer files.

K-TRON

 

Yuck...camera transfers can be slow. You can find USB SDHC SD Card devices for like $20-30 easy...even at Best Buy.

 

The Ricoh R5C822 in my Sony G11 supports SDHC under Vista. Are you running XP? Vista has reasonable SDHC support but if you are running XP then you need a patch.

John

 

I am currently using Windows XP,
if there is a patch which would make this work, that would be awesome.
Transfer speeds through the camera are quite a bit slower than through the integrated card reader.

K-TRON

 

The XP-SDHC patch is here. Today I installed the patch on my Samsung X60 plus (which I think also has the Ricoh card reader) and I could then read SHC which it didn't do before. I has previously discovered on my old Samsung Q35 that the reader supported SDHC under Vista but not under XP which showed that the support was somewhere in the software.

John

 

Thanks John, the update/hotfix worked.
The system picks up my card fine now.

Youre the man.
+rep for you

K-TRON

 

Glad to hear that the hotfix did the necessary.

Another thread with a happy ending.

John

 

Just FYI, check your transfer rates across the intergrated reader. I've found even though they support SDHC many often run be below 6MB/s (as a solid unbroken line in HDtach), whereas a dedicated reader like the one that came with the SDHC card shows the full potential going from just under 20MB/s to 12MB/s along the test.

At first I thought the reader were running at USB 1.1, but that would read just under 2MB/s then, so it's likely controller issues.

You may find it worthwhile to get a solid SDHC reader if you have big or alot of files to transfer and do it often enough. If you buy large enough cards usually they come with free readers, or even some of the more expensive cards like the 4GB EIII came with one, so you might get one for cheap from someone who already has a few (I give mine away to friends, but I would have 4 already if I kept them all).

 

It works good in my sd card reader, my hdtune result is a stright 19.2mb/sec.
I am very happy with the resuts
Thanks guys for your help

K-TRON