Remove Card or USB

No, no, no, the best way is MY way.

Always has been and always will be. Doesn't anybody pay attention any more?

Reader on my SLR's, but the G-9 is a different beast.

Any card that was written by the G-9 (regardless of where it was formatted) CANNOT be recognized my any of my computers. I have 2 laptops and 2 desktops and using any cardreader - the integrated ones, or the USB ones - I always get a disk not found message. So with the G-9, I have no choice but to link the camera to the computer with a USB cord and transfer that way.

Rad

Radtech1 wrote in post #5764481
Reader on my SLR's, but the G-9 is a different beast.

Any card that was written by the G-9 (regardless of where it was formatted) CANNOT be recognized my any of my computers. I have 2 laptops and 2 desktops and using any cardreader - the integrated ones, or the USB ones - I always get a disk not found message. So with the G-9, I have no choice but to link the camera to the computer with a USB cord and transfer that way.

Rad

Interesting, anyone else have a similar experience with G9?

Radtech1 wrote in post #5764481
Reader on my SLR's, but the G-9 is a different beast.

Any card that was written by the G-9 (regardless of where it was formatted) CANNOT be recognized my any of my computers. I have 2 laptops and 2 desktops and using any cardreader - the integrated ones, or the USB ones - I always get a disk not found message. So with the G-9, I have no choice but to link the camera to the computer with a USB cord and transfer that way.

Rad

Can you see it using ZoomBrowser? That's what I use to download from my reader. I don't have a G-9, but it works fine on my wife's A620.

-js

number six wrote in post #5765091
Can you see it using ZoomBrowser? That's what I use to download from my reader. I don't have a G-9, but it works fine on my wife's A620.

-js

Nope, cant see it because Winblows wont even recognize the presence of a disk (card) in the drive (reader). This happens even though the card reader is the same reader (different slot of course) that I use with the CF cards.

I can force a destructive format using the Disk utility, after which windows will see the disk (card) until I use it in the camera. Then back to not being seen. The placement of the read only slider has no bearing.

This happens with all 4 of my SD cards, on all 4 computers (3 with XP, 1 with Vista), using both internal and external (USB) readers.

Rad

Calicajun wrote in post #5761837
Most PC towers (mine for sure) use USB 1.0 and is very slow. Using a external card read has increased the download times by a factor of 10 for me.

Not if your computer is less than... oh say 6 or so years old. USB 2 has been around for quite a while now.

silvex wrote in post #5761674
card reader. I have the sandisk extreme firewire800. Much faster than the USB2

I'd agree with this though. I just recently got the Sandisk Extreme IV reader and card bundle and it's incredibly fast running over firewire (I haven't tested to see how much difference Firewire 400 or 800 makes, but I have it hooked up via 800).