--- You wrote: @Rich: What is the brand and model and chipset of your reader? I'm using a Sonnet Trio PCI-combo-card with Firewire, USB and ATA-133 which never gave me any problems. The USB-chipset in the alternative multi-reader which also had problems is a smsc. --- end of quote --- HI!
According to profiler it is a usb 2 smsc. No problem with it at all. I don't know about Nikon formatting but I do know that it was a Nikon that I put my card into from either my Canon or my earlier HP, maybe the Minolta. The card came back currupted, which made me learn about recovery software. I don't know what the differences are, but apparently there are some. I've had an HP, a Minolta and a Canon and the cards all look the same to me when displayed on the screen through a reader. As far as I know, you shouldn't have any problem formatting a card in a computer, then reformatting it in the camera and back again. The card is like a blank drive. It can be set up in a number of ways. The camera standard is a FAT 16 DOS format, which a Mac can read and write to but cannot format. It can only format DOS FAT 32, besides Mac formats, of course. You can get a PC to format in FAT 16 if you figure out how. I dug into this a bit when my 512 card was giving me trouble and I couldn't find software to test it. I tried formatting it on a friend's pc but it still got currupted after a certain number of photos were loaded on. The formatting worked but the card still didn't. The company replaced the card. I think cards out of the box are formatted DOS FAT 16 so they work right away in cameras. I don't know about reader problems, but I've had them. I have a Sandisk Firewire CF reader that was nothing but trouble on my old Beige computer. Terrible. Stopping in the middle of transfers, computer lockups, disk curruption. Awful, and the reader was twice the price of a usb 2 reader. I had trouble trying to get USB 2 working on the Beige (apparently it won't) so the card reader messed up. That same reader (the one mentioned at the top) works fine on the same usb 2 card in my G4 Digital Audio. I wonder if the firewire reader would work on my new machine. Probably won't even bother to try it. USB 2 is really delightfully fast. Hope some of this makes sense, Jorg. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
