[Ti] IBM microdrive and OS X

[Cyn]

At 8:08 PM -0700 4/22/03, George Reis wrote:
>Cyn wrote on 4/22/03 7:45 PM:
>
>>
>>  I went to place my IBM microdrive into the pc slot of my 17" for the
>>  first time and it didn't show up on the desktop. I also got a warning
>>  that I needed to shut down the computer and restart it. What's up
>>  with this? Is it not compatible with OS X? I searched the web for
>>  insight and came up with nothing other than Hitachi  is now the owner
>>  of this product or some such.
>
>I use an IBM Microdrive in the TIBook 500 with OSX (currently 10.2.5, but
>previously with 10.2.4 and 10.2.3) all the time. It mounts onto the desktop
>just fine, and allows me to access the files without a problem. However, it
>doesn't allow me to erase the disk, telling me that it is in use. I end up
>formatting the card in the camera after downloading the images.

I just tried to insert it again. This time it showed up on the 
desktop but also launched iPhoto. When I tried to quit iPhoto I got 
the spinning beachball until I finally forced quit iPhoto.
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Cyn
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