Ricoh R5C843

Ricoh PC Card Controller with Media Card Interface and FireWire Controller This is a single chip, offering six PCI functions: PC Card bridge, SD/SDIO/MMC/MMC plus, MS, MSPro, xD and FireWire (400 Mbit/s IEEE 1394a) controller. Features Chipset: 5C843 Interface: PCI Bus Functions: PC-Card Controller: PCI 1180:0476 FireWire 400 (IEEE 1394a): 1180:0832 4-in-1 card host: PCI 1180:0822 SD/SDIO/MMC Host: PCI 1180:0843 Memory Stick MS/MSPro: PCI 1180:0592 xD-Picture Card: PCI 1180:0852

Drivers Status

PC Card

(32 bit) Card Bus tested, ok. (16 bit) PCMCIA not tested.

FireWire (IEEE 1394)

Modules ohci1394, ieee1394, eth1394 and raw1394 modules loads fine, eth1394 detected as 'eth1' and device /dev/raw1394. Tested with kino and DV-camera - it works.

SD Card reader

Worked out-of-the-box using Kubuntu 7.04 (kernel 2.6.20)

Worked with archlinux (kernel 2.6.30) Loaded modules: sdhci ricoh_mmc

Worked with CentOS 5 (2.6.18), but filenames were all uppercase

Worked better with Fedora 7 (2.6.22)

Worked in Gentoo with ricoh_mmc, (mmc_core), sdhci, and sdhci_pci modules

MemoryStick and xD Picture Card reader

Windows functionality only. There is experimental support for Sony MemoryStick in the latest 2.6 kernels, but not for the Ricoh chipset. No support for xD cards at all.

Links & ressources

• Ricoh Product Sheet [1]

ThinkPads this chip may be found in

Rocoh R5C843

• X60 Tablet