On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Clark Martin <cm...@sonic.net> wrote:
> On 7/18/10 6:56 PM, onelucent wrote:
>
>> I was thinking the same thing. Also, once you get into SD cards, some
>> higher capacity or higher speeds ones will require "later,"
>> higher-capacity readers.
>>
>
> In one case I encountered where this was a problem the 4Gb SD card showed
> up in the older card reader but it couldn't be accessed beyond the 1Gb
> point. But other card readers could well not show the card at all as it
> seems in this case.
>
> The OP might try a smaller (< 1Gb card) as a test.
The one card is a Compactflash Card (FC-32M)
The other is a 2GB xD Picture Card for my Olympus Stylus 300 digital camera
(I have USB drives that are 2GB)
According to the folks at Olympus I should have no problem seeing this card
>
>
>
>> On Jul 18, 2010, at 8:17 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
>>
>> When I Google "0x058f" I immediately see "Generic USB 2.0 cardreader"
>>> which makes me think this device likely requires a USB 2.0 port to
>>> work? It would be worth the investment in a cheap USB 2.0 PCI card.
>>> Also, unless your keyboard is a newer USB 2.0 keyboard the ports on
>>> the keyboard will also be the slower USB 1.0 ports, so you'll need to
>>> attach the cardreader directly to the USB 2.0 PCI card ports or a USB
>>> 2.0 hub attached to this card. You can used the onboard USB 1.0 ports
>>> for your keyboard & mouse or other USB 1.0 devices.
>>>
>>
>>
> Generally speaking, USB 2.0 devices work with USB 1.x hosts but at the
> lower speed of course. The fact that the OPs device shows up in System
> Profiler tends to indicate that USB 1 vs 2 is NOT the issue.
>
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