serial card reader?

[Gil]

Hi. I have a digital camera that uses a USB connection, and has an SD memory card in it. I want to be able to use this on a 68k mac. Are there any serial-8 pin card/media readers anywhere?

 

[alk]

Nope. But you might get lucky and find a SCSI one. I know I've seen SCSI ATA Flash and Compact Flash readers, but I don't recall seeing SD, XD, or MMD readers...

Peace,

Drew

 

[Cory5412]

I do believe there are adapters to use SD media in a compact flash slot, so if you can procure a SCSI > CF reader, or a SCSI > PCMCIA > CF reader, you should be able to use SD cards with an SD reader in the CF slot.

It is likely to be very expensive though.

 

[benjgvps]

You can use it this way also: SCSI > IDE > CF Reader > SD To CF Adapter

 

[Maconthemove]

I have a Microtech International card reader.

PCD-50B SCSI 4MB/sec Int. Type III PC Card slot, and dedicated

built-in CompactFlash,SmartMedia slots, Memory Stick

and Secure Digital

PC or MAC Type II/III ATA; CF; CFII; SM; MS;

SD/MMC

MD

It is not much bigger than a 3 1/2 inch floppy drive. There were used in Photo Kiosks. 50 pin SCSI connector (internal) Got it on ebay. Try there.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

I have a serial Memory Stick (up to 128 MB) reader lying around somewhere. Came with my camcorder back in 1999. (The digital still camera bought at the same time came with one of the 'FlashPath' floppy adapters.)

Won't help you with your SD card, but if you just want to be able to get a flash memory card working on a 68k desktop Mac, it's probably your best bet.

 

[Bunsen]

Are there any serial-8 pin card/media readers anywhere?

Serial yes, and a PC-Mac serial (ie modem) adapter gets you to 8 pin.

Here's two, and the seller has more.

Drivers? Who knows...

 

[register]

edit: Now I have got an Adtron SDDS SCSI PC card drive (3.5 inch form factor, 5 V supply voltage). Single and dual PC card drives of this make are still available, but manufacturer lists item as "end of life". The device is fitted into a nicely yellowed external SCSI enclosure liberated for this purpose. It works well with compact flash devices in a PCMCIA-CF adaptor. I have verified compatibility with a Performa 475 (8.1) as well as a beige PowerMac G3 (9.2.2). The CF cards are formatted "Mac OS Extended/OS 9 driver" with the Mac OS X Disk Utility (10.4.11). This works for an old Jenoptik 32 MB CF card and for a Kingston ultimate 1 GB (100x) CF card. Hot swapping works well (use "put away" to unmount and use SCSI Probe to hot mount). You can use it as a start volume, also. The hack for ResEdit Drive Setup to support initialising of this device in System 8.1 seems _not_ to work. (To use the drive as a boot volume for 68kMacs, format Mac OS Standard.)

Successfully tested with Intenso 4 GB SDHC card in a Delock PCMCIA PC-Card CardReader 33 in 1, Product code 87401. SDHC cards will only work in recent SDHC enabled card devices.