should i expect my SD card slot to be supported by a USB driver?

[J]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 07:04, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> which doesn't do me a great deal of good if the device looks like a
> SCSI USB storage device.  or am i misunderstanding something?  i was
> anticipating running some of the MMC test routines on a blank card
> but, under the circumstances, i'm not sure how i would do that.
> thoughts?

I would say try external card readers, but I'm almost positive those
will also show up as USB devices since that's how they're connected.

But this is all a matter of what card reader a manufacturer uses in a
given system (and that can vary greatly from model to model or even
between production runs on the same model), whether the reader
presents as a USB device or perhaps a PCI device... so realistically,
the only option unless you can find a way to fake it would be to buy
another computer that has a card reader that doesn't resent as a usb
device.  And I have no idea which ones those are at the moment... I
have seen them before, but didn't pay enough attention to be able to
list them.

Good luck though...