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SDHC Card Support

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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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