Hi Severin, I'm not sure of having a solution to your problem, but recently I bought a digital camera using SD cards and went along buying 3 x 512MB SD (by San Disk), and to my disarray the card reader refused to mount the new disk on the desktop.
The card reader is a Transcend USB 2.0 card reader which until then was reading smaller memory-sized SDs and Sony Memory Discs with no problems. But no go with my SanDisk 512MB, whether the reader was connected via my USB hub or directly to the G5. I could however download the photos by connecting the camera directly to the Mac, but that was not practical for me. I bought a San Disk ImageMate 12-in-1 Reader/Writer, and this did the trick and so far has worked faultlessly. Wonder if possibly your card reader is not the one failing for some reason? Maybe you could borrow someone else's card reader to see if it makes a difference. Sorry that I do not have an explanation. Wish you all the best. Regards, Philippe on 5/3/06 11:34 AM, Severin Crisp at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have recently purchased a Lexar Professional 80x 1GB Flash Card for > my Nikon Coolpix 5700. Main reason, apart from capacity for the .NEF > raw photos, was the speed of internal transfer which previous cards > lacked causing annoying waits when shooting. I transfer to my > computer via a USB2 reader which gives no problems with other > cards. With this one, transferring either by a simple Finder drag or > using Image Capture everything seriously hangs and only a forced > restart gets out of it. With Finder drags taking the files one at a > time works, usually, but for more than about three together it > hangs. Image Capture can not transfer even one image. Does not > matter if the reader is into a hub or directly into a port. Same > problem on G4 with USB2 card or G5 with native USB2. Are these cards > just lousy or am I missing something? Within the camera everything > is fine - and fast. By way of interest, iPhoto6 still does not > recognise the Nikon .NEF format but somewhere in the system a > thumbnail is correctly generated and the files are identified as > belonging to Preview. > Comments welcomed. > Severin Crisp > ________________________________________________________ > Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP > 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. > Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) > email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web pages http://www.JennyCrisp.com.au > & http://members.westnet.com.au/Crisp > ________________________________________________________ > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
