SD Card Readers

[patrickw]

Originally Posted by skimmel

I realize this is an old thread, but I just got a Sandisk Extreme III 2 GB card and my card reader won't recognize the card either. My Sandisk Extreme III *1* GB card works fine.

Did anyone figure out solutions to their problems?

Thanks.

Stephen,

I have found that the SD Extreme III 2GB cards work fine with an unexpensive Hama 2.0 Card Reader 35 in 1. I am on a Mac, and I have tried several other card readers, none of them recognized the cards.

Patrick

[skimmel]

Originally Posted by patrickw

Stephen,

I have found that the SD Extreme III 2GB cards work fine with an unexpensive Hama 2.0 Card Reader 35 in 1. I am on a Mac, and I have tried several other card readers, none of them recognized the cards.

Patrick

Thanks Patrick. I'm using a PC. I just ordered a new Sandisk reader so hoping that will work.

[wparsonsgisnet]

I spent some time helping another poster thru the 1.092 download and update process, when he couldn't get it to work.

The solution for him turned out not to be the process he was following but the SD card. When he tried a different, brand-new 2GB card, everything worked perfectly.

It may be that some of the cards we are buying are faulty. The posting above stating that the reader could be seen by the mac after trying a different card sounds like the same.

Be careful out there....

[patrickw]

Originally Posted by skimmel

Thanks Patrick. I'm using a PC. I just ordered a new Sandisk reader so hoping that will work.

Stephen,

good luck. I was not successful with Sandisk card readers.

Patrick

[skimmel]

Originally Posted by patrickw

Stephen,

good luck. I was not successful with Sandisk card readers.

Patrick

Thanks. That's pretty amazing that Sandisk can't even read it's own cards! By the way, I did see on the Sandisk site I think something about problems reading cards with macs, so maybe they have a solution (and maybe it's mac-specific).

I'll post my results to this thread when I get the reader.

[bap]

I have the same problem on my Mac Intel but only with a card reader. If I go from the M8 with Image capture it works fine with both but if I only use raw and not the combination the reader works as well. It would seem that the card reader will read one or the other but not both

[patrickw]

Originally Posted by bap

I have the same problem on my Mac Intel but only with a card reader. If I go from the M8 with Image capture it works fine with both but if I only use raw and not the combination the reader works as well. It would seem that the card reader will read one or the other but not both

Bruce,

at least on my Mac Intel, the problem exist even when you just take DNG-files - except for this cheap Hama card reader. It seems to me that it is more a card reader problem than a card problem.

Patrick

@ Stephen: I will have a look at the Sandisk site. Unfortunately, Sandisk until now was not too helpful. They changed the card and the reader, but the problem remained.

[hammam]

My Sandisk «ImageMate 5 in 1» card reader works just fine with a Sandisk Extreme III 2 gig. As soon as I plug it in the USB outlet, the card shows on my Mac desktop (Power Mac G5, OS 10.3.9) as a hard drive named... «No name». I open the card. select the DNG files (and jpeg files when needed) and drag the whole lot to my folder of choice, usually on an external HD.

I don't understand why Mac owners use «download programs» to do that. It works perfectly well with Mac's Finder.

[skimmel]

An update: I got a SanDisk Extreme card reader and it works fine with my Extreme III 2 gb card (as well as an older ultra II 2 GB CF card).

So, looks like the answer (for me) was a new card reader. For anyone interested, it's this one:

Amazon.com: Sandisk Extreme USB 2.0 Reader: Electronics

[cbretteville]

I have an MobileMate SD+, an ImageMate 5-in-One as well as a generic no brad and a built in one in a Fujitzu Siemens box. I have four 2Gb Extreme III cards that I shuffle though the M8 and the readers - no problems what so ever. I'm on a PC. I'll try the MolbileMate on the wife's iMac tomorrow and see what happens

- C

[scott kirkpatrick]

I use a SIIG 18-in-1 which is too big to take everywhere, but I just found the Kingston Travelmate, for $8. Look here
for the reader. With a 1GB ordinary speed card it costs just $9 more.

I tested it. It's fast, but not the fastest available. I wrote almost 1GB of Leica DNG files to the Kingston card at 5 MB/sec, then downloaded them to a PC at 10 MB/sec. I put a SanDisk 1GB Extreme III card in it and it uploaded and downloaded at 12.5 MB/sec. It recognizes files on an SD card formatted in the M8. So no problems.

scott