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SD card doesn't go sleep between transfers #56

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My SD card (4G by Transcend) consumes ~20 mA in idle state between transfers. Author of SdFat library wrote some years ago about this:
'I understand the problem. You are using SD.h and it has a bug that doesn't allow the SD to sleep.

SD.h has not added bug fixes from SdFat for about three years and the Adruino developers have added their own bugs. I tried SD.h with my tests and found cards pulled from 15 to 28 ma when idle.'
(http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=149504.msg1124464#msg1124464)

After conversion my code from SD to latest SdFat library power consumption in idle state became normal.

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