Motorola SD Card Reader not Recognized

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Motorola SD Card Reader not Recognized

Trying to use a Motorola SD Card Reader that came with a cell phone on a white Macbook (OS X 10.5.6). OS X doesn't recognize the reader itself or two different SD Cards I've tried on the the thing. Formatting for both cards was done in OS, and both can be recognized via a USB HP printer with a built in card reader.

Interesting to note: When the card reader is plugged into a USB port, and a card inserted into the reader, the on-board LED lights up.

The SD Card reader's model number is printed as: SYN1114A

Any help or suggestions would be great. Thank you.

Message was edited by: retrokat42

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Apr 7, 2009 1:43 PM

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y_p_w

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Apr 7, 2009 2:10 PM in response to retrokat42

I can't find anything on this specific reader save a few sales pages. Motorola doesn't seem.

However - the reviews I read on it noted that it isn't SDHC compatible, so any SDHC card (would be larger than 2 GB) won't work on it.

Have you checked System Profiler to see if it shows up in the USB tree?

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Apr 10, 2009 8:37 PM in response to y_p_w

I have used both an SDHC card and a regular SD card, no results with either. Interestingly enough, it will work on a PC with both the SDHC card and the regular SD Card. Any further ideas?

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