# Talking to an xD Picture Card

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talking-to-an-xd-picture-card/328088>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 27, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talking-to-an-xd-picture-card/328088 "2005-10-27T00:11:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talking-to-an-xd-picture-card/328088/1 "2005-10-27T00:11:29Z")

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I have one of these, but not in a camera - it’s a memory device for a single-board computer (SBC). I’d like to be able to read it in a program (that I write) running on my PC.

I have a USB card reader that accepts the xD card. But the SBC can’t create files that an operating system like Windows can see. I need to be able to talk to this card at a very low level. I assume that what I need is something like an alternate driver for the card reader.

Anyone know how to find such a thing?

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**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talking-to-an-xd-picture-card/328088/2 "2005-10-27T08:25:20Z")

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If you find one, I’d sure like one that works for Smartmedia cards. I remain convinced that my [Windoze-formatted cards](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=303612) can one day work again in my camera, should they just get a low-level format treatment.