[Ti] PCMCIA card for Ti - any success stories out there?

W. Scott Street IV WSStreet at mac.com
Wed Feb 18 15:07:33 PST 2004


Malcolm,

I have the same card adapter, and I had the same problems with 10.2.x.  
It worked fine with 10.1.x.  The only fix I've had is to upgrade to 
Panther.  With 10.3.x, I no longer have the problem with kernel panics.

--Scott Street


> From: Malcolm Hamilton <malcolm_hamilton at cbc.ca>
> Subject: [Ti] PCMCIA card for Ti - any success stories out there?
>
> Hi again -
> I mentioned a few months ago that I got a SanDisk PCMCIA CompactFlash
> PC card adapter (so I can download photos when on the road, without
> having to carry around a USB card reader), and it was causing not
> just crashes, but kernel panic crashes.
> Some of you kindly responded, suggesting that maybe I needed to get a
> newer driver from SanDisk, or maybe upgrade to 10.2.8.
> Here's what SanDisk had to say:  "Unfortunately, there are no known
> issues. All the drivers are provided by the operating system".
> So I upgraded to 10.2.8, but when I tried to use the PCMCIA card, the
> same thing happened that happened before:  the little icon for the
> card didn't appear on my desktop, but appeared in my menu at the top
> (this seems odd, doesn't it?); I clicked on the icon... and the
> computer crashed.
>
> Shall I try another type of PCMCIA card adapter?  Upgrade to Panther?
>
> Are some of you successfully using PCMCIA cards for the purpose I've
> described?  If so, what kind of cards, and what operating system are
> you running.  Are you following any special instructions for using
> the card?
> (My computer is a 400MHz Ti, by the way; 768MB of RAM).
> Thanks for any help or advice!
> Malcolm
>
>



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