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I can't find any support online and may have received a bad reader. I've had this CF reader for a few months and it's become a pain. I can put in the card but whenever I plug in a CF card I get a system crash. It will work if I start my MacBook Pro with everything plugged in but that's very impractical. I would not recommend this product
When I could get it to work correctly it did let me import photographs from CF cards extremely quickly, but that's the only good news.I also discovered that when I would insert the card with a CF card inserted into it, my MacBook Pro would force me to power cycle. I really feel the need to warn any OS X user about this product. I'm running 10.5.6 and purchased this card for the speed and Mac compatibility. This occurred every single time I tried. I did discover that if I inserted the card while leaving the ExpressCard inside the MacBook it would work better but doing so is rather difficult.I am now using a Lexar Firewire 800 CF reader and no longer have to worry about rebooting my Mac.Pro Series Compactflash Readers Firewire 800
The ony way to make it work is shut down the computer, insert the reader and the card and boot up. I got the right card from Amazon, that must suck for those other people. But, like some of the other people posting, this Delkin card will crash my computer every time I insert it. Then everything works OK. This happens on a Dell Laptop and a Macbook Pro 15".
Functionally this item works well. Kudos to Delkin et al for actually producing these items. The adapter for the 54 pin Express is L shaped and although the compact flash still sticks out, the adapter can be left in the laptop because with the memory removed the edge of the adapter is flush with the unit.
A Compact Flash is bigger than this slot. I don't know how Express Card is much of an advance; the old PC card adapters held the compact flash card INSIDE the laptop. But the 34 pin Express slot is the problem.
Not so the this one. That means the compact flash connector is OUTSIDE the slot. And we haven't even plugged the compact flash card in yet.
So much for progress. Compact Flash is losing out to SD and may be gone soon.
Sometimes it's in the middle of transferring images off of the card. This is the only piece of hardware that I've ever encountered that can reliably cause a kernel panic in my 17" MacBook Pro. Sometimes it's when I've successfully gotten images off the card, and have forgotten to eject the card before working on the images.But it's always a matter of WHEN, not if it's going to kernel panic my machine. Every single time I use the adapter, I end up in a kernel panic. Sometimes it's immediately upon putting the adapter in the expresscard slot. It seems to be tied to the combination of this adapter and more than 2GB of physical RAM (I've got 4GB). Simply put - avoid this one at all costs.
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