sandisk sd card readyboost

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.
"Jim H" wrote in message

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!

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?
"R. McCarty" wrote in message

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.
"Jim H" wrote in message 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!

This might sound dumb, but what is ReadyBoost?
"Zapper" wrote:

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?
"R. McCarty" wrote in message 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.
"Jim H" wrote in message 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!

The best info regarding ReadyBoost that I have found on the net so far.... http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/2006/06/02/615199.aspx
A search of the newsgroup would have pulled up this info also....

"DJ TECH" wrote in message

This might sound dumb, but what is ReadyBoost?
"Zapper" wrote:
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?
"R. McCarty" wrote in message 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.
"Jim H" wrote in message 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!

This might sound dumb, but what is ReadyBoost?

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/features/foreveryone/performance.mspx
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User

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.
"Jim H" wrote:

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!