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BTP · Feb 3, 2003, 10:23 PM

I have a ADS Compact Flash Firewire reader that doesn't mount the CF card. it gives me the " you have inserted a volume with no mountable partitions....Ignore, Initialize, Eject.."

I looked on the ADS site, there are no lsited requirements for X, only for OS 9. I read that other people use this with no problems, but I am not having the same experience. iPhoto2 is supposed to have many drivers and I can't get this thing to work.

Does anyone have a suggestion or experience with this thing?

I have tried it on two different computers, one with a fresh install of 10.2.3

chabig · 08:21 AM

Obviously the machine knows you inserted a card, so I have to ask the obvious question...is the CF card formatted?

Chris

BTP · Feb 3, 2003, 10:37 PM

Yes. By the camera, and it works fine. It is all brand new stuff. It just a bunch of pictures on it.

geekwagon · Feb 4, 2003, 01:36 AM

I have the same problem. 32mb CF card, I get the same message you just stated. I have tried hooking up the camera to the Mac, I have tried an Acom 6-1 USB reader and a Dazzle CF reader. Same result on each. If I launch Disk Utility it sees the card with a FAT16 filesystem on it, but it won't mount. I can format the card on the mac with a DOS filesystem using disk utility and it will mount, but then it will no longer work in my camera (an HP 315.)

Very frustrating. Anyone have any ideas?

Eriamjh · Feb 4, 2003, 06:46 AM

It sounds like the Camera is formatting the card in a way the mac cannot read/mount it. I thought Macs could handle FAT16 drives, but maybe yours is modified slightly.

There is something called "common disk (something)" mode that some CF readers use. It's what OSX uses to mount certain types of media as a drive. If your card doesn't support it, it requires special drivers to mount in OSX or OS9.

Did you email ADS support reagrding this?

Zim · Feb 4, 2003, 07:13 AM

Originally posted by BTP:
I have a ADS Compact Flash Firewire reader that doesn't mount the CF card. it gives me the " you have inserted a volume with no mountable partitions....Ignore, Initialize, Eject.."

I looked on the ADS site, there are no lsited requirements for X, only for OS 9. I read that other people use this with no problems, but I am not having the same experience. iPhoto2 is supposed to have many drivers and I can't get this thing to work.

Does anyone have a suggestion or experience with this thing?

I have tried it on two different computers, one with a fresh install of 10.2.3

I see the same thing with my CF card reader... BUT (I don't remember how), you can make it launch ImageCapture automatically (I don't use iPhoto).

Eventually somehow I did get the card to mount and found a series of folders, which quite honestly looked like it would take a little guesswork on what to copy and delete from where... it was not a flatfile folder of just picture files.

Mike

ervier · Feb 4, 2003, 07:39 AM

I had a friend who had similar problems with WinXP. The card worked fine on the camera, but not in the card reader. Finally she reformatted the card on the computer, and then everything worked fine. But maybe your problem is different.

chabig · Feb 4, 2003, 08:25 AM

Card readers can be built to look like disk drives to the computer. But not all are--these need special drivers. I agree with the poster who suggested you contact ADS tech support.

On my Mac, disk utility says my Canon formatted CF card is FAT-12. I don't know what the difference is between FAT-12 and FAT-16.

Chris

bradoesch · Feb 4, 2003, 09:28 AM

Originally posted by chabig:
Card readers can be built to look like disk drives to the computer. But not all are--these need special drivers. I agree with the poster who suggested you contact ADS tech support.

On my Mac, disk utility says my Canon formatted CF card is FAT-12. I don't know what the difference is between FAT-12 and FAT-16.

Chris

FAT 12 is used best with capacities less than 16 MB. FAT 16 was used up until Win95 OSR2, and after that FAT 32 was used. Well, there is NTFS on the NT side, but that's different. If you'd like to read more about FAT, here's a link.

Brad

BTP · Feb 4, 2003, 10:02 AM

I did contact ADS, and they haven't gotten back to me yet.

I also did try to reformat the card, but that didn't work either. I eventually had to force quit Disk Utility.

I have tried everything I could think of and I am at the point where I suspect that maybe this thing is broken.

chabig · Feb 4, 2003, 11:00 AM

Thanks for the info on FAT12. I checked my 8MB card because I don't even use it. My 64MB card was in the camera...I didn't check it.

Chris

BTP · Feb 4, 2003, 04:54 PM

Problem solved. APS says it is broken and they are sending me a new one.