Re: SDHC & card readers

Steve wrote:

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?

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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