SanDisk ImageMate Compact Flash Reader No Longer Works

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SanDisk ImageMate Compact Flash Reader No Longer Works

Not sure when this stopped working - I'm guessing after 10.4.6, but here goes.

I have a SanDisk ImageMate Compact Flash Card reader that used to work fine with Compact Flash Cards from my Canon Digital Rebel XT. Now it no longer works. Tried it on my iMac G5 as well as iBook G3, both running 10.4.6 and neither works. The iBook G3 has a fresh install of Tiger as of a couple days ago.

Any ideas or solutions to this? I can hook the camera up and everything works fine, but I bought the card reader to avoid this.

Thanks!

iMac G5 20, iBooks G4 & G3, 60GB Black iPod w/video, Mac OS X (10.4.4), 12,000+ iTunes

Posted on May 22, 2006 9:13 PM

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Answer 1

Old Toad

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May 23, 2006 3:03 PM in response to Chuck Konfrst

Chuck:

You've tried it on two running Tiger. Have you tried it on any other machines or can you? It might be that it gave up the ghost, slim but might be the case. You have tried it in all of the various USB ports on those machines, right?

I had the same problem with a Firewire card reader. Won't mount on my G5 or my wife's G4. I plan on taking it to the local Apple retailer and seeing if it will work on any of their machines. If so then I've got port problems on my macs. I think my reader got zapped.

You could take it with a card of some photos into a local dealer and give it a try on several display models.

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Answer 2

Neil G

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May 23, 2006 3:34 PM in response to Chuck Konfrst

Did you peek into the CF slot and check whether any pins are bent? I have a multislot card reader and I wasn't careful (once!) when I stuck in a CF card. A pin on one end got bent over -- s'all she read.

Otherwise, you ought to be able to check it out on most any computer, Mac or PC.

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Answer 3

Old Toad

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May 23, 2006 3:51 PM in response to Neil G

All pins look good. The system profiler recognizes it as a Unknown Device when it's connected but that's all. Worked fine until by G5 came and it tried it there. Who knows, maybe it got toasted by the use slot. I've tried it on all three of my Macs with no success. I'm looking at a USB 2 reader which will be about as fast as the FW 400 reader.

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Answer 4

Chuck Konfrst Author

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May 23, 2006 7:19 PM in response to Neil G

Good call, Neil G; two pins were bent. Not sure how it happened, but I'm looking in the general direction of my 4 year old. 🙂

Thanks everyone!

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Answer 5

Nov 27, 2006 8:03 PM in response to Chuck Konfrst

I too am having the same issue... with a 14 in 1 reader from SanDisk... It was working 2 weeks ago just fine and dandy... Now it's broke.

The only thing I can think of is a system update that I got about a 1 1/2 weeks ago.

No bent pins either.

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