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Comment 50 for bug 202490

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Noel J. Bergman (noeljb) wrote : Re: No driver for Ricoh R5C822 Xd card reader

> Any chance of getting a fix for this?

Support for the chip does not seem likely to come from Canonica, and I can think of a lot of other things I would prefer that they invest their time and money onl. xD media is not very popular. Were it not for a loaner of an Olympus camera at PADI Total Sub last year, I'd personally never know that this issue existed.

Recommendation: with all due apologies to my friends at Olympus, do not buy gear that uses xD media (or Memory Stick). Instead, go for SD/SDHC and/or Compact Flash. If you happen to have one of the two brands of cameras that use xD, or otherwise simply *must* have support for xD media, purchase a reader from Olympus or Fuji since the xD reader sold by them appears to be supported (q.v., http://alauda.sourceforge.net).

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XD-Picture_Card