On 21/11/2005, at 9:12 PM, Shay Telfer wrote:

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.



But is it working as a USB 2.0      ?????
Is there perhaps a USB 1 device also plugged into that hub ???

Bob





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