[DigiCam] Sony Mavica CD 400

[Jack Jacklich]

At 10:02 AM -0500 2/25/03, Eric Stauffer wrote:
>Dear List Members,
>
>I just upgraded my iMac 800 with Mac OS 10.2.4 and now I cannot even 
>read my CDs from my Sony Mavica CD400 through USB. iPhoto launches 
>and recognizes the camera, but then crashed completely. Also, the CD 
>does not appear in the finder.
>
>Anybody had any problems after updating?


Yep. Had 'em. Fixed 'em. Took me several months to figure it out though.

There is a setting in the Mavica that has to be changed. You have to 
set the "USB Connect" setting in "Setup 2" to PTP(whatever that 
means) not "normal".

And you do not have to finalize the disk so I don't anymore. I've 
forgotten now but it seems as if you do it won't work.

The thing that threw me is that the instruction manual for the Mavica 
specifically says this will not work and no one either at Apple nor 
Sony knew about it.

There was one Sony tech who suggested that because Apple didn't say 
anything about it, maybe it was so simple they didn't think they 
needed to. Sort of like the zen of Mac. Ah well.
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