OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Setup & Installation
SDHC Card Support
Dan Eicher:
The wiki looks awesome.
As for the install.
I changed the bios to secure boot off,
no uefi,
legacy,
csm on.
I had one quirk in the install, I logged it on Mantis [which I can't access at the moment]
I think it's the 3rd reboot, startup.cmd installs things, like the bar on the bottom of the screen.
Mine abended on product 29 or 27.
I worked around that, by moving startup.cmd to dan_startup.cmd, rebooting.
starting cmd.exe and running dan_startup.cmd by hand - and it completed.
Last week, I read all the help / wiki files on arcanoea.com,
This week I read through everything in /sys/doc.
Doug Bissett:
--- Quote from: Dan Eicher on August 01, 2025, 06:25:12 pm ---Using a Thinkpad T530 - it has an SD Card slot, collecting dust.
Should I be able to pop-in an SDHC
card and use minilvm to format it?
Would the recommendation be FAT32 or JFS?
Is the backend for this the usbmsd?
--- End quote ---
I expect that it is the same as the slot in my ThinkPad L530. I never got it to work. The simple solution was to get a USB SD card adapter. I got a Kingston device (Realtek internally). It started to work with the Arca Noae USB stack, a few releases ago.
There may be a better option, unless you use the SD card with another device. I have a couple of USB external drives, using SABRENT enclosures, with Crucial NVME sticks. They work far better than SD cards (and adapters).
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