At 11:00 PM +0800 4/9/06, Robert Howells wrote:
On 4 Sep 2006, at 6:23 PM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:
At 1:42 PM +0800 4/9/06, Robert Howells wrote:
On 4 Sep 2006, at 12:47 PM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:
Yesterday I was presented with a Super Talent Ultra Flash USB 2.0
Flash Memory Drive of 1GB. The information cards says it is
compatible with USB 2.0 or 1.1. The information cards also
asserts 'Plug and Play and easy to use'. Well, not on my iMac G4
running OS X 10.2.8.
Visited their website at www.supertalent.com and found a patch
for 10.2.8. Downloaded but my Stuffit Expander wouldn't (v7.0).
Downloaded Stuffit upgrade (8.0.2), appropriate for my system and
unstuffed the offending file. Installed the patch. No joy. My
wife's iBook running 10.4.7 can see it in DOS format or MacOS
extended.
Any ideas or do I give my Father's Day gift to my wife?
Merv
1. Hang on to it !
2. It's probably formatted in Dos or the likes ( Fat32 ? ) which
is desireable if you
are going from Mac to PC , but not necessary for just Mac .
Mac can normally handle
the Dos , but perhaps your Mac cannot .
So use the ladies Mac to reformat to HFS+ and then see if your Mac
will look at it
Bob
Bob
Tried formatting to Mac OS extended on the iBook but my iMac still
would not recognise it.
On the iMac after using Disk Utility to format it (DOS or Mac) it
appears on the screen. I can drag items to it and when it is
plugged into the iBook the dragged files are available. Plugging
back into the iMac it gives the message that there are no Mac OS
volumes to read and my options are to ignore, eject or erase!!
Ignoring produces nothing.
When setting up for erasing/reformatting in Disk Utility there is a
line that says: Connection ID unknown. Any ideas at whether this
is the problem? If so, what does one do?
Merv
Hmmmm !
I had a problem recently giving similar symptoms for a Hard Drive in OS9.2
that turned out to be an incorrect Mac ROM file in the System Folder .
There's a story to tell about how that happened !
It's important to match your hardware ( iMac Model ) and Firmware
with your System software .
So the question is ,,,,, Have you the right version of OSX 10.2.8
for the Firmware
on your iMac ?
Can you boot into OS9.2 ? Can you then see the Flash card ?
Since there was a special download for 10.2.8 , but not 10.3
what about upgrading to 10.3 ?
Bob
Checked on firmware updates - none required
Yes, when I boot from OS 9.2 the Flash is recognised.
Recent bits of software have made me consider going to 10.4 but my
disk drive is for CDs only. Would have to purchase a CD version and
then take all night to install!!
Are you finding OS 10.3.9 stable?
Merv
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