PCMCIA Card Readers? Which will work?

I'm considering getting a PCMCIA card reader for my camera's SD cards and possibly other memory cards, to use with a Wallstreet using OS 9 and/or a PB 1400 using 8.6. (I don't have the thingy to use a PC card in a 520c!)

Will anything work, or only certain ones? What would you folks recommend?

Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on May 9, 2006 8:50 PM

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May 10, 2006 10:18 PM in response to Sludgedragon

For your information, I am using two SanDisk devices:

One is the 6-in-1 PC Card Adapter (until now only tested with a 16 MB SmartMedia card), which works fine in a PB 190cs and a PB 5300c. A minimal System 7.5.3 on the SmartMedia card will even boot both these computers (Command + Option + Shift + Delete to bypass the system on the internal hard disk).

The other one is a CompactFlash PC Card Adapter, which functions equally well in the aforementioned PowerBooks. The CF card, too, can be used as a startup disk. A CompactFlash card in the CF adapter is even recognised by an old Model M2864 V1/B PowerBook PCMCIA Expansion Module in a PB 540, albeit not as a bootable disk. Said expansion module had difficulties with the SmartMedia card in the 6-in-1 adapter, though. Things may be a bit different with another memory card, or with a M2864 V1/C expansion cage (I have access to that module as well, but have not carried out the tests).

Jan

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