Sandisk SD card ReadyBoost

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Can anyone walk me thru the install procedure for using the 512 Sandisk SD
card as ReadyBoost? I've tried it with my cruzer mini, and Ipod and it works
fine. No go with the SD card for some reason, and the store won't take it
back.

Thanks!
 
Believe it's designed to work "Only" with USB interface. SD and
Memory Stick devices do not utilize USB channels, but have their
own pathway onto the System Bus.
 
It could also be a speed issue. None of my SD cards(Kingston,Sandisk,
Generic) are fast enough to be used for ReadyBoost.
Your IPod was fast enough to use as ReadyBoot??? That is the shuffle?
 
This might sound dumb, but what is ReadyBoost?

Zapper said:
It could also be a speed issue. None of my SD cards(Kingston,Sandisk,
Generic) are fast enough to be used for ReadyBoost.
Your IPod was fast enough to use as ReadyBoot??? That is the shuffle?
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Hi, sorry i can't help with yours but maybe you can point me in right
direction!
I have a 2Gb cruzer mini but am unable to get readyboost to work. I get the
error
' The device is plugged into an unsupported interface'
I know this is a USB2 port and have had no probs with it in the past
If it is relevant i am running RC1.
thanks in advance
Al c
 
Jim,

I've been using a SanDisk UltraII SD card with an IOGear SD to USB adaptor.
It works well for me unless I forget to tell Windows Defender to not run
against it.

If I let Windows Defender run then Vista re-detects the IOGear dvice and any
other USBSTOR.SYS enabled device connected and determines that they are
"Unknown Devices" and installs the "Unknown Device" driver for them so there
is a Caveat to using ReadyBoost.

I also have to say that I have yet to see a performance boost in production
applications. If I have to repeat a scene transition in a game it takes less
time to load up, but outside of that I haven't seen any kind of improvement.
To give you a feel, my machine is a 3.06GHz Northwood equiped 845G chipset
with a gig of 533MHz RAM and a pair of 250GB Barracuda drives in RAID 1.

For those unfamiliar with ReadyBoost the short description is that it
essentially moves the pagefile from the slower hard drives to a much faster
USB key. The pagefile is replicated on the HD still so that if the USB key is
accidently detached you don't lose uncommitted data, but Vista uses the USB
key as its primary pagefile location.
 
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