SD Card

[pcfe]

Originally Posted by Holden

What I do not understand is the way to insert the card.

on the back of your Cybook there should be a relief depicting a card with the cut off corner clearly visible. Useful and necessary as it seems a bit strange at first to insert the card with it's contacts facing you when you are looking at the screen side of the Cybook. (As depicted by delphidb96 earlier in the thread)

Originally Posted by Holden

Does it stay completely inside the Cybook or it comes out a bit?

When you insert it the correct way, you will feel some "sprinyness" at the end of the bit that goes in smoothly (card is sticking out by 1-2 mm at that point and if you push it very gently, it will come back to that 1-2mm position). You have to push past this point (against the force of the spring) until you feel a click (card will be about 1mm inside the device at that point, lock in and rebound to be more or less flush)
To remove the card you push it in about 1mm until you feel the click and it will then pop out.

Be careful though, it is possible (with enough force) to insert an SD card into an SD slot the wrong way and BadStuff(tm) will most probably happen (i.e. it breaks)

PCFE

[HarryT]

You have to push the card in below the level of the top of the slot for it to "lock" into place. As Derek says, make sure you're putting it in the right way - with the "label" side of the card facing towards the back of the CyBook.

[Holden]

...and it works!!!!!!
I was afraid of pushing too hard and break something.So I realized that I have 1GB free space and also a twenty something new e-books already stored here by the firm from which I bought the cybook.
You have been very helpful,

[delphidb96]

Originally Posted by Holden

...and it works!!!!!!
I was afraid of pushing too hard and break something.So I realized that I have 1GB free space and also a twenty something new e-books already stored here by the firm from which I bought the cybook.
You have been very helpful,

We are always glad to be of help. Now GO FORTH AND READ!!!

Derek

[Multireader]

I tried a 4GB Extreme III SD card out of my camera. No good. Cybook took an age to boot up and failed to locate any files on the card (no, the card wasn't locked)

I bought a 2Gb cheap and nasty SD card and it works fine.

[mbovenka]

Originally Posted by Multireader

I tried a 4GB Extreme III SD card out of my camera. No good. Cybook took an age to boot up and failed to locate any files on the card (no, the card wasn't locked)

I bought a 2Gb cheap and nasty SD card and it works fine.

That's because it's 2GB. The Cybook doesn't support 4GB SD cards, whether they are SDHC or not.

[khnam]

The 1GB SD card I get along with Cybook is very slow, I copied 2MB files to it but it took more than 2 minutes. Anyone get this problems or it's only me? I bought this from NAEB. The cover says Elite Pro 1GB. Thanks.

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by khnam

The 1GB SD card I get along with Cybook is very slow, I copied 2MB files to it but it took more than 2 minutes. Anyone get this problems or it's only me? I bought this from NAEB. The cover says Elite Pro 1GB. Thanks.

All SD cards are not created equal. I have a variety, from Lexar Media, PNY, Patriot, and SanDisk, used in my Palm OS PDA.

There are about four manufacturers of the actual flash memory used in SD cards: Hitachi, Panasonic, SanDisk, and Toshiba. Other SD card vendors buy media from one of them on an OEM basis, and put it in their own packaging with their own label.

I did some speed tests on my cards with a couple of Palm OS utilities. The cards were all in the same general range with one exception: the PNY card had Write speeds an order of magnitude slower than the rest. Read, random access, and file create/delete tests were all fine, but it took long enough to write to the card that I thought the device had hung in one test and was about to reset it. (The test wrote a 1MB file to the card, and read it back, and timed how long each operation took.)

Since the other tests were in line with the other cards, it wasn't a deal breaker, as the data on that card would be read by the device but not written to, and files would actually be placed on the card with a USB reader, transferred from my PC. The card info utility on my device said the card had Toshiba media. A correspondent on another forum with a similar device reported the same results from a Kingston Technology SD card, which also used Toshiba media.

I don't know what's different about Toshiba's flash memory that would cause the slow write speeds, but for my purposes it's not a huge problem. As mentioned, the card will be read from, not written to. I wouldn't want to use it in a digital camera, but it will serve in the PDA.

I don't know if the Cybook provide a utility to determine whose media a card uses, but I'd bet Toshiba in this case.
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Dennis

[khnam]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

All SD cards are not created equal. I have a variety, from Lexar Media, PNY, Patriot, and SanDisk, used in my Palm OS PDA.

There are about four manufacturers of the actual flash memory used in SD cards: Hitachi, Panasonic, SanDisk, and Toshiba. Other SD card vendors buy media from one of them on an OEM basis, and put it in their own packaging with their own label.

I did some speed tests on my cards with a couple of Palm OS utilities. The cards were all in the same general range with one exception: the PNY card had Write speeds an order of magnitude slower than the rest. Read, random access, and file create/delete tests were all fine, but it took long enough to write to the card that I thought the device had hung in one test and was about to reset it. (The test wrote a 1MB file to the card, and read it back, and timed how long each operation took.)

Since the other tests were in line with the other cards, it wasn't a deal breaker, as the data on that card would be read by the device but not written to, and files would actually be placed on the card with a USB reader, transferred from my PC. The card info utility on my device said the card had Toshiba media. A correspondent on another forum with a similar device reported the same results from a Kingston Technology SD card, which also used Toshiba media.

I don't know what's different about Toshiba's flash memory that would cause the slow write speeds, but for my purposes it's not a huge problem. As mentioned, the card will be read from, not written to. I wouldn't want to use it in a digital camera, but it will serve in the PDA.

I don't know if the Cybook provide a utility to determine whose media a card uses, but I'd bet Toshiba in this case.
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Dennis

Thanks, I think my SD card is Kingston because its coverage is lookalike, just w/o the Kingston logo. I now changed to another card coz it's frustrating to wait for the copying process.