This new memory card standard was created specifically for digital cameras, and it was significantly smaller than SmartMedia (20 mm x 25 mm x 1.7 mm versus 45.0 mm × 37.0 mm × 0.76 mm). Fujifilm and Olympus took this difficult task upon themselves and, in July 2002, revealed the xD-Picture Card. It was clear to most leading digital camera manufacturers at the time that a new memory card standard needed to be created. To start with, SmartMedia cards were very large, and their capacity topped at just 128 MB.

Launch Disk Drill and Scan Your xD Cardĭuring the early 2000s, SmartMedia had the biggest percentage share (40%) of worldwide digital camera storage, but it also had its fair share of limitations.

Wait for Your Computer to Recognize the xD Card.

Is It Difficult to Recover Data from xD Cards?.

In addition to seeking a solution to this, I would also like to learn more about how linux detects, identifies, and organizes items like SD cards and xD cards when they are inserted. Most of the device names and other strings that I see are gobbledygook to me, but by seeing what is happening when I insert the SD card, I think I have an idea of what should happen when the xD card is inserted in the same internal reader.

When I insert an xD card, and watch the 'xD-Picture Card Controller' absolutely nothing happens. The moment I insert an SD card, the device manager line for the 'MMC/SD Host Adapter' recognizes the kingston SD card was inserted. This is the location presented for linux.sysfs_path, linux.sysfs_path_device, and _path (I have no idea what that refers to) sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:03:01.1Īfter examining information in the device manager, I infer that the xD card should be at When I insert the SD card, the manager shows that it is present at I watched the HAL device manager on my gnome desktop while inserting the SD card, and it also correlates. Additionally, there are now two new objects in /dev, which are mmcblk0 and mmcblk0p1.Īgain, inserting the xD card into the internal reader yields no dmesg output. The SD card is automatically mounted as mmcblk0p1 on /media/Kingston, and it shows up on the gnome desktop. Contrast this to when I insert an SD card into the internal 5-in-1 reader, which yields the following dmesg output:

When I insert the xD card into the internal 5-in-1 reader, dmesg gives absolutely no indication that something has changed. Plugging in my external USB xD card reader generates the dmesg report. The problem is with my internal 5-in-1 card reader, which came with the inspiron laptop. My old external USB xD card reader works, as it always has.

If only that were the case! I think I was unclear.

Fujifilm xd picture card reader driver