MP230 (SD / SDHC / SDIO Card Reader)

Introduction:

SD card to Add-on card adapter design for high speed SDHC cards and SDIO cards. You can easily add SD card to your Desktop PC PCI-E slot.

Specification

Box Contents:

MP230 (SD / SDHC / SDIO Card Reader) x1
Low profile PCI express bracket x1

System Requirements

Desktop PC with PCIe slot.
Windows 7 (32-/64-bit) / Vista (32-/64-bit) SP2 or later/ XP (32-/64-bit) SP3 or later

Notice

To use SD / SDHC Cards on Windows XP/VISTA/7 your system requires install RICOH private driver for more compatibility (download here). Otherwise your SD cards can’t work properly.
To use SDIO wireless Cards on Windows 7, your system requires choose Microsoft SDA host inbox driver. And SP1 Update or Windows 7 (KB983177) hotfix update.
To use SD / SDHC Memory Card Formatting Software, Please download file from SDCARD.org web-site as below:
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/
Please backup your data before using the formatting program.

SDIO Compatibility List
Brand	Model	Chip	Compatibility
			MR04R	EC220-IO	EC230	MP230
			miniPCI-e	ExpressCard	ExpressCard	Add-on card
Atheros	SD25	AR6102	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass
Atheros	SD27	AR6102	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass
Atheros	SD31	AR6003	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass
Atheros	SD32	AR6003	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass
Atheros	WB31	AR6003+AR3001	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass
Atheros	SD31B	AR6003	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass
Atheros	SD32B	AR6003	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass
SPIL	AF-N-30G	AR6003	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass
USI	WM-AN-AT-01	AR6003	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass
USI	WM-BN-AQ-01	AR6003	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass
ASE	SAT11C	AR6003	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass
Brand	Model	Chip	miniPCI-e	ExpressCard	ExpressCard	Add-on card
Brand	Model	Chip	MR04R	EC220-IO	EC230	MP230
Notice
EC220-IO setting SD_CLK to low speed for more SDIO cards compatibility. To use SDIO wireless Cards on Windows 7, your system requires choose Microsoft SDA host inbox driver. And SP1 Update or Windows 7 (KB983177) hotfix update.

MP230 Ver1.0 Mother board: ASUS M2NPV-VM System : win7 SP1 32 bit Test Tools : CrystalDiskMark2.2 CPU: AMD Athton 64 X2 Dual core Procossor 3800+ 2.00GHz RAM: 1.98GB
MP230 TEST 1 Driver: SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller	TOSHIBA Class 10 SDHC 8GB	TOSHIBA UHS-1 SDXC 64GB	SanDisk SDHC Class UHS-1 8GB
Read (MB/S)	22.08 MB/S	22.08 MB/S	22.08 MB/S
Write (MB/S)	18.50 MB/S	12.75 MB/S	20.21 MB/S

MP230 TEST 2 Driver: Ricoh PCIe SD/MMC Host Controller	TOSHIBA Class 10 SDHC 8GB	TOSHIBA UHS-1 SDXC 64GB	SanDisk SDHC Class UHS-1 8GB
Read (MB/S)	21.38 MB/S	21.37 MB/S	21.06 MB/S
Write (MB/S)	17.77 MB/S	12.67 MB/S	19.61 MB/S

Documents Download
MP230 Brief	Taiwan	Taiwan 2 Mirror	China Mirror
Dimension	Taiwan	Taiwan 2 Mirror	China Mirror
Schematic	Taiwan	Taiwan 2 Mirror	China Mirror
SD cardreader comparison	Taiwan	Taiwan 2 Mirror	China Mirror
Test Report	Taiwan	Taiwan 2 Mirror	China Mirror
SDIO Compatibility	Taiwan	Taiwan 2 Mirror	China Mirror
To use SD / SDHC Cards on Windows XP/VISTA/7 your system requires install RICOH private driver for more compatibility (download here). Otherwise your SD cards can’t work properly
To use SDIO wireless Cards on Windows 7, your system requires choose Microsoft SDA host inbox driver. And SP1 Update or Windows 7 (KB983177) hotfix update.
To use SD / SDHC Memory Card Formatting Software, Please download file from SDCARD.org web-site as below: http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/ Please backup your data before using the formatting program.

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