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LightWaver-67 · Aug 30, 2003, 07:58 PM

About a year ago, I bought a LEXAR USB MemoryStick Reader (RW012 Rev.A) so that I could transfer images from my SONY Camcorder's MemoryStick. I forget what OS I was running at the time... 10.2.0...? 10.2.1...? I dunno... but bottom line: I tried plugging the reader into EVERY USB port... on every hub... even tried plugging it DIRECTLY to the back of my G4... NO DICE!

I tried plugging it in WITH a stick in it... WITHOUT a stick in it... I tried REBOOTING with the reader plugged-in without a stick AND with a stick in it... NOTHING!!!!

I cannot get the MemStk to show-up in ANY version of OSX all the way up to the current 10.2.6. The MemStk is fine, because I can keep using it IN the camcorder... Could it just be a "dud" reader...? Or am I just missing something so BLATANTLY obvious...?

When I plug in the reader... the LED lights-up and remains lit. I can insert & remove the memory all-day and the LED doesn't so-much as flicker. Do I just bite-the-bullet and get a new one...

OH YEAH! One more thing... the reader itself is listed in the USB chain when I go into System Profiler... but if I go to the finder or Disk Utility... there is no volume to browse.

* sigh *

Any help is appreciated.

Thanx.

LightWaver-67 · Aug 31, 2003, 06:14 AM

*Bump*

No one has any words of wisdom or advice...?

PLEEEZE...?

Mithras · Aug 31, 2003, 08:05 AM

There are two versions of the Lexar Memory Stick reader: A and B.

The B version is built as a 'USB Mass Storage Device", and will mount without any drivers in OS X.

The A version requires a special driver to work. A driver was written for OS 9, but never for OS X, despite over 18 months of promises

Yours is a revision 'A', your only recourses are
(1) use it in Classic (if you have Classic), with an OS 9 file manager like File Buddy.
(2) Get what you can for it on eBay and try again.
(3) Call up Lexar and b!tch at them until they trade your A for B. Good luck with this approach.

Does the Camcorder have a USB port in addition to the Firewire port?

LightWaver-67 · Aug 31, 2003, 08:14 AM

Originally posted by Mithras:

Does the Camcorder have a USB port in addition to the Firewire port?

Yes it does... why...? Should I try THAT...?

EDIT: Just looked at it... it's not a "Standard" USB port and I don't think I was supplied a cable with the camera. I will check around. It's a SONY. Hopefully I can come-up with something.

LightWaver-67 · Aug 31, 2003, 08:26 AM

HOLY CRAP!

I found the cable (in some ubiquitous cable box) plugged it in a BANG! There it was on my desktop!

That absolutely ROCKS! Thank you SO MUCH for pointing that out to me.

WoooHOOO!

MikeD · Aug 31, 2003, 05:28 PM

on top of this, perhaps the company lexar gets it's readers from is pretty bad. I had a ads firewire cf reader and lexar had the same one. All in all, it was horrible. I found through some research that addonics was the way to go!

BTW, with the ADS firewire reader, I would rarely see my CF card on my desktop. Now with this addonics, I can do CF and MS (and about 6 others I don't use though) all over firewire!

Mike