What to buy along with 1G Microdrive ?

[Andrei]

Hi, all !

I'm going to buy 1Gb Microdrive. Can you tell me if I should also buy special cardreadear or my SanDisk is enough ?

[John - NJ]

AK:

The IBM Microdrive I bought came with the card reader. Do they sell one without?

[Pekka]

Is your Sandisk compatible, does it have drivers for your system? I bought this Swift reader which said Microdrive compatible on the box, and it works but is two times slower than the camera. Useless. So I use Chris's Downloader and Zoombrowser (2 backups!) and get the photos directly from the camera.

There are two microdrive packages, one is with PCMIA adapter and it's called travel pack, one is only the card.

[Andrei]

I use SanDisk 64M CompactFlash Type II on Win98 with their reader. Truly to say, it was pain in the ass (pardon for my French :) ) to install their drivers due to conflict with some of the Adaptec drivers.

I've no idea about compatibility with Microdrive. So the only decision might be to download directly from G1 like you do. (Or to buy the second reader). But this downgrade in speed (in my case). From the other side it's more useful for Microdrive itself: less touch it, healthier it be.

Pekka, what is Chris's dowloader ? Never heard of it.

Pekka wrote:
Is your Sandisk compatible, does it have drivers for your system? I bought this Swift reader which said Microdrive compatible on the box, and it works but is two times slower than the camera. Useless. So I use Chris's Downloader and Zoombrowser (2 backups!) and get the photos directly from the camera.

There are two microdrive packages, one is with PCMIA adapter and it's called travel pack, one is only the card.

[Andrei]

I saw it on Microtech. But it's unclear whether reader are included or not.

http://www.microtechint.com/store/media.html

John - NJ wrote:
AK:

The IBM Microdrive I bought came with the card reader. Do they sell one without?

[Pekka]

See http://www.breezesys.co.uk/

Andrei wrote:
Pekka, what is Chris's dowloader ? Never heard of it.

[Andrei]

Ok. Thanks

Pekka wrote:
See http://www.breezesys.co.uk/

Andrei wrote:
Pekka, what is Chris's dowloader ? Never heard of it.

[prosurfer]

Pekka wrote:
There are two microdrive packages, one is with PCMIA adapter and it's called travel pack, one is only the card.



Actually there is three different packages, one with PC Card adapter, second with USB reader, and third the card alone.

[quint]

I bought a Zio compact flash reader from State Street Direct (US$39.00). It plugs into a USB port and makes the microdrive a removable disk on the system. I just drag and drop the JPGs from the microdrive to my hard drive.

It also acts like a device you can download from with Zoombrowser - interface is just like the camera interface with Zoombrowser. You can select RAW images, JPGs and movies just as if the actual camera is plugged in. It is much faster (at least 2x faster) that the cameral alone.

I don't like removing the drive though...it is so small I fear that I'll loose it!