Re: [PATCH 2.6.19] mmc: Add support for SDHC cards

From: Pierre Ossman
Date: Mon Jan 01 2007 - 12:50:30 EST


Pavel Machek wrote:
> Would you describe what SDHC is? I know SD flash cards, and IIRC SDIO
> cards exist, with functionality such as bluetooth...? But SDHC?
>
>

SDHC is short for "Secure Digital High Capacity". It's simply SD flash
cards than conform to a new version of the protocol, a version where
addressing is done on a sector (512 byte) basis instead of bytes.

Rgds

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