On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 14:51:24 -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > I expect to buy next Tuesday a Canon 60D body which can use SD, SDHC and > SDXC recording media. SDXC cards are considerably more expensive than > the other two, in part I suppose because they use the Microsoft exFAT > file system; so royalties must be paid. > > Besides the cost, I am concerned whether SDXC cards can be read by Lenny > and successors on my PC and Lenovo laptop. Apparently a special driver > is needed to do so. > > In view of the foregoing I wonder whether I am better using the SDHC > cards instead, because their unit cost ($ per mB) are lower than the > SDXC unit cost, and because they do not use a proprietary file system > still with patent protection.
You can get an idea on the status of SDXC by reading the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital#SDXC > Has anyone had any experience with SDHC and SDXC cards in digital > cameras to share? My Nikon D80 uses SD/SDHC cards. I can read/write both of them with no problems at all in Lenny when I connect the camera via USB. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.11.28.21.50...@gmail.com
