On 21/11/2005, at 5:04 AM, J Philippe Chaperon in WAMUG Mailing List
digest wrote:
I use a SanDisk 512MB (SD Card) in my Lumix LZ30, which seems to works OK in
the camera, however I just cannot read the card when inserted in my
Transcend' card reader connected to my G5 1.8Mhz dual, running OS X 3.3.9.
The card reader is connected to a USB 2.0 powered hub.
I have used Disk Utility to try to mount the SD disk on the desktop, but
nothing happened. I also tried to reformat the card but Disk Utility bombed
with the dreaded beach-ball. Disk Utility was able to detect the Card, its
size etc, but was unable to mount it on the desktop.
Howdy J Philippe,
I had a similar problem with a San Disk card reader, so hied me to
the Google and found that Mac and SanDisk are not friends for a lot
of users.
The summary of a lot of technical stuff I read was that SanDisk
components are not "standards compatible" - something about their
drawing too much power via usb. Macs don't like this I understand.
This research was done around a year ago, so things may have changed.
Nancy M
In which case try plugging the reader directly into the back of the
Mac (rather than the keyboard). No guarantees though...
Have fun,
Shay
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