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Steve - 10 May 2008 22:32 GMT

Am I doing something wrong or is there more than one flavour of USB2 card
reader?

Until a few days ago my biggest SD card (for a D80) was 2Gb. All fine and
dandy - stick it in the card reader and up it would pop as a drive from
which content could be retrieved. Having a card reader saves on the faff,
minor though it is, of having to connect the USB cable to the camera. Card
out, slot it in the reader, dump stuff, pop card back into camera, format
card to start afresh.

I now have a 4Gb SDHC card. Works fine in the camera. However, the card
reader (or should that be Windows (XP SP2)? ) can't see the card and Windows
explorer ends up hanging. Using the faff method - plug the USB cable into
the camera - Explorer finds the card/camera straight off no problem. It
would *seem* to be the card reader but I'd like to just check the collective
wisdom here before I mooch off looking for a compatible one. Are not all
card readers equal? Have I missed some fundamental setting?

TIA,
Steve

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Frank Arthur - 11 May 2008 16:52 GMT

> Am I doing something wrong or is there more than one flavour of USB2
> card reader?
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> TIA,
> Steve

No card readers are capable of reading all cards.
I would strongly suggest you get a card reader that is of the same
brand (or their reccomended brand and model) of the card itself.

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Blinky the Shark - 11 May 2008 19:09 GMT

> Am I doing something wrong or is there more than one flavour of USB2 card
> reader?
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> wisdom here before I mooch off looking for a compatible one. Are not all
> card readers equal? Have I missed some fundamental setting?

I just had approximately the same experience, moving from 2GB to 4GB, when
I tried using my first SDHC card. My readers would not. I found a Sony
reader[1], the packaging of which specifically mentioned SDHC
compatability. Of the probably 20 various makes and models on the shelf
at my favorite electronics store (Fry's, USA), that was the only one so
designated. It works fine with the HC card.

[1]http://tinyurl.com/5ey9kn (that product at Sony website)

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Steve - 11 May 2008 21:42 GMT

>> Am I doing something wrong or is there more than one flavour of USB2 card
>> reader?
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> [1]http://tinyurl.com/5ey9kn (that product at Sony website)

Thanks. I'll go look.
Steve

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Steve - 11 May 2008 22:04 GMT

>>> Am I doing something wrong or is there more than one flavour of USB2
>>> card
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> Thanks. I'll go look.
> Steve

Just a quick followup. SDHC cards of whatever capacity require an SDHC
reader. I got a couple of Sandisk 8gb high speed cards and they each came
with a reader. The reader just plugs into a USB port. And the reader I got
is faster than putting a regular SD card in my computers SD slot.

Steve K

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Joel - 11 May 2008 22:36 GMT

> Am I doing something wrong or is there more than one flavour of USB2 card
> reader?
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> TIA,
> Steve

SD and SDHC are not 100% the same, and the reason why your old SD reader
can't read SDHC because SDHC is slightly different than older generation SD
and your old SD reader doesn't support SDHC. And you will need a newer
generation of SD/SDHC supported in order to read SDHC memory card.

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