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Hi all,

Since I cannot find mmcs in my country and plenty of SDs, I thought change
the mmc and use SDs.
Is there much difference on using mmc vs SD?

I´d appreciate any help or link on using SDs.

Javier

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--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, JChavez@s... wrote:
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> 
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> Hi all,
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> Since I cannot find mmcs in my country and plenty of SDs, I thought 
change
> the mmc and use SDs.
> Is there much difference on using mmc vs SD?
> 
> I´d appreciate any help or link on using SDs.
> 
> Javier

Hi Javier,

You may want to check out www.sdcard.org for an overview.

Sandisk have very useful information, too:
http://www.sandisk.com/oem/sd.asp

Regards,

Hans

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Generally, a device that uses SD card can use mmc but not vice versa. This is because, SD card has an extra pin which I think is for security purpose. Thus, if you put in a SD card into a mmc slot (which is one pin less), you won't be able to read it.
 
Another important thing to look out for is, SD card is thicker than mmc. Hence, even from physical dimension point of view, I don't think you can even fit a SD card into a mmc slot. This happened to my siemen SL45 phone. It uses mmc card. I can't even get the SD slot into it.
 
Be careful cos' some company is producing SD card that is as slim as mmc card. Eg. Kingmax. Recently, my friend put my Kingmax SD card 1 GB into his Nokia 6230 phone but, the phone cannot recognise the SD card. Upon close inspection, the SD card has one extra pin compared to mmc card.

Hans Kallen <hk@avrcard.com> wrote:

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, JChavez@s... wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Since I cannot find mmcs in my country and plenty of SDs, I thought 
change
> the mmc and use SDs.
> Is there much difference on using mmc vs SD?
> 
> I�d appreciate any help or link on using SDs.
> 
> Javier

Hi Javier,

You may want to check out www.sdcard.org for an overview.

Sandisk have very useful information, too:
http://www.sandisk.com/oem/sd.asp

Regards,

Hans

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www.avrcard.com





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If you are designing a new system, SD is very similar to MMC. You 
can easily use both as we do in our product ALFAT 
http://www.ghielectronics.com/ALFAT.htm

But you can't just plug in an SD card into a device that uses MMC. 
Most new devices/connectors support both MMC and SD.

Hope that helps,

Gus Issa
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File System Made Easy 
http://www.ghielectronics.com
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--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, JChavez@s... wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Since I cannot find mmcs in my country and plenty of SDs, I 
thought change

> the mmc and use SDs.
> Is there much difference on using mmc vs SD?
> 
> I´d appreciate any help or link on using SDs.
> 
> Javier