Lazyweb request: PCMCIA Compact Flash Card Reader for OS X
Published 2 years, 6 months ago in macintoshAnyone know where I can buy a PCMCIA card that’ll work in my PowerBook and that’ll let me read Type I and Type II Compact Flash cards? I need one to get data off my camera’s CF cards more easily than carrying around the USB adapter I have. I just want to plop the CF card into my Mac and then eject it… I hate peripherals when I’m on the road.
15″ Aluminum PowerBook G4, running Mac OS X 10.4.5 (currently)
(I ask because I bought one from Amtron after calling them to make sure it’d work in my PowerBook, and sure enough, they said “yes, it’ll work”. I got it today, and guess what: It doesn’t work with my PowerBook. Works fine with my Thinkpad, but not the Mac. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I knew better than to trust the sales person… now I’m going to be out shipping both ways, which more than doubles the cost of the stupid thing, and I still don’t have what I want. Argh.)
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I have a Sandisk 6-in-1 (not CF) reader that works in my PB. They have other adapters, but I didn’t see one that can read Type II CF, check it out:
http://sandisk.com/Products/Catalog(1139)-SanDiskCard_Adapters.aspx
And another non Type II (more expensive, I would try Sandisk’s):
http://www.macally.com/spec/specialties/connecting/pcmcf.html
Sorry if this isn’t any help.
Nutter, thanks, but I think I need to keep looking… it seems this piece of hardware is a bitch to find, hence my problem…
Try this: http://www.delkin.com/delkin_products_adapters_cardbus.html
Linked from here: http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/24195
Best of luck, and all that
You might also find something here: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0310/03102103delkincardbustest.asp
This one cost me six bucks from meritline and it works just dandy with my 15″ AlBook and Tiger:
http://www.meritline.com/pqi-cf-pcmcia-adapter.html