finished testing SDHC to IDE adaptor mpc2000xl

chinese purchase sd card reader IC no. KTC- FC1306T chip

Support PC Card ATA, Compact Flash and true IDE interface.
Automatic sensing of PC Card ATA or true IDE host interface.
PIO, Multi-word DMA and Ultra DMA Host Data transfer Support.
ATAPI Interface (SSF-8020i and SFF-8070i)


pros:

read and write to card on windows/linux etc
no need to select master or slave
formatted and reads all the below cards (FAT Partition)

Kingston 2GB microSD with adaptor
Sandisk 4GB SDHC
Sandisk 8GB SDHC

cons:

not hot-swappable
mpc will only format cards to a 1GB partition (leaving remaining card intact)

After testing sd cards seems to work best with sandisk cards
still causes data corruption of fat table this can be fixed with right software

so if you see a card reader with KTC- FC1306T chip on it dont bother
it only costs 10 pounds to buy but still causes problems

try buying a compact flash card reader they seem to be the best as
the compact flash cards have an in-build true ide IC.

just search ebay for card readers hot swappable now available for 50 pounds

Hopefully, your experience using the SDHC cards will be a good one. I wanted to let you know why I never sold those when I had SCSIforSamplers.com - data corruption. Many times a customer would start out using an SD or MicroSD card and all was well. Then, a couple of weeks into the useage, the card would just show up corrupted and we could never find a reason. Compact Flash cards have always been the only media that was 100% reliable.

I don't mean to be ants at a picnic and I hope you have no problems but I wanted to let you know my experience. I'd advise keeping your data backed up on your computer or a second card until you know for sure the drive and card will be reliable.