I often have trouble with a CF card in the reader. But in my case simply pulling out the USB cable for a second and plugging it back into the reader causes the drive to appear in a window immediately. But if the reader is in the PC case this may not be a practical solution.
Don Henk Terhell wrote: > I'm also not so sure I like the switch from CF to SD. Never had any > problems with CF in the istD, but the first SD card (Sandisk Ultra II) I > put on my K10D was first OK but now already refuses to be read in the PC > disk drive. I have not mistreated it in any way (but perhaps I'm too old > for these tiny things?). Now I have to use the PC cable to unload this > card. > > Henk > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Digital Image Studio > Sent: 09 January, 2007 8:30 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: How does one unlock an SD card?? > > > On 09/01/07, John Celio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Bent pins are a nightmare, because you have to support the customer >> for something they did from not following the instructions. It's not >> a manufacturing defect, but the customer will usually piss and moan >> like it is. >> >> I think that was a big motivating factor for the switch to SD. >> > > Just pop your SD card in your DSLR only upside down and push real hard, > you'll find something will break but most often it's the card. I'm also > hearing more anecdotes about dirty contacts on SD cards causing > read/write unreliability. Nothing's fool proof. > > -- Dr E D F Williams www.kolumbus.fi/mimosa/ http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams/ 41660 TOIVAKKA – Finland - +358400706616 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
