Ricoh R5C843
Ricoh PC Card Controller with Media Card Interface and FireWire ControllerThis is a single chip, offering six PCI functions: PC Card bridge, SD/SDIO/MMC/MMC plus, MS, MSPro, xD and FireWire (400 Mbit/s IEEE 1394a) controller. Features
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Drivers Status
PC Card
(32 bit) Card Bus tested, ok. (16 bit) PCMCIA not tested.
FireWire (IEEE 1394)
Modules ohci1394, ieee1394, eth1394 and raw1394 modules loads fine, eth1394 detected as 'eth1' and device /dev/raw1394. Tested with kino and DV-camera - it works.
SD Card reader
Worked out-of-the-box using Kubuntu 7.04 (kernel 2.6.20)
Worked with archlinux (kernel 2.6.30) Loaded modules: sdhci ricoh_mmc
Worked with CentOS 5 (2.6.18), but filenames were all uppercase
Worked better with Fedora 7 (2.6.22)
Worked in Gentoo with ricoh_mmc, (mmc_core), sdhci, and sdhci_pci modules
MemoryStick and xD Picture Card reader
Windows functionality only. There is experimental support for Sony MemoryStick in the latest 2.6 kernels, but not for the Ricoh chipset. No support for xD cards at all.
Links & ressources
- Ricoh Product Sheet [1]