[G4] Compact Flash Card Unreadable on MAC OS X

[Jerry Bunn]

Do you have the most current driver on your USB card reader?  I had a 
similar problem and I needed the most current driver to make it work 
right.

Jerry

On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 01:51  PM, Chris Johnson wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I just purchased a 512 MB compact flash card for my Nikon 950 Digital 
> camera. I formatted the card in the camera and everything works fine 
> except when I put it in the USB card reader and go to mount it to my 
> computer. The computer is G4 powerbook with OS X 10.2.4. It comes up 
> with error message saying it can't read the card and do I want to 
> initialize the card. I go into disk utility and says the disk is FAT 
> 16.  So is there a work around. It won't read it in OS 9 either. I 
> have a Window's machine and works with no problems. I can't believe it 
> can't work with OS X. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
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