[NTLUG:Discuss] SD cards and Linux

[Leroy Tennison]

Thinking about buying an SD card for my camera (Concord 3346x) because 
the USB connection isn't recognized by Linux and I would like to get 
away from having to boot Windows just to upload pictures.  Before I do I 
want to see if anyone has experience indicating that this would work.  
Concord (the manufacturer) says that the camera is compatible with Mac 
OS X via the SD card, what I don't know is if Linux and Mac OS X are 
close enough to one another to consider this a good indication that 
things will work.

Googling I found posts that indicated Linux had no problem accessing SC 
cards via USB-based readers but I also saw other posts indicating the 
opposite.

I found an MMC/SD for Linux site that indicated SD card support is being 
included in kernel 2.6.14+ but I am on 2.6.9 (CentOS 4.3).  I also 
learned that the SD technology owners have very recently (may 2006) 
released the SD specification (or at least part of it) but that 
apparently some under NDA didn't honor that and the details have been 
known for a while.  I have also seen an article stating that a SanDisk 
card reader worked fine on Linux allowing access to pictures stored on 
it but it was a different camera.

Can anyone provide any information on this?  Does it work?  Are there 
considerations I must take into account?

Thanks for any replies.