Re: bad media card reader?

Herschel Mair <herschel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:39:06 -0600



    I've had bad experience with the Firewire 800 cables. They seem to
    work loose and stop working after a while. My old laptop's port was
    also worn and card readers were eratic... needed fiddling with.

    
    Herschel

    
    On 4/5/11 1:29 PM, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
    
        Another thing you can try is to put another device in the
          port you think is bad.Â It may be something that makes the
          connection between that specific reader and that specific port
          a problem, but will work fine with everything else.Â 

          
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            Subject: Re: bad media card reader?

            From: Lea Murphy <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

            Date: Tue, April 05, 2011 11:46 am

            To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals -
            Students

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            Great idea to blow things out Emily, thank you. I'll give it
            a try.

            
            Yes, firewire 800. I bought it when I bought my 5DM2 because
            the other readers were so slooooooooooooow to download.

            
            By the way, it's not the reader, it's the port. I put it in
            a new port and everything loaded up just fine time after
            time.

            
            I'll give the canned air a try and see if that helps. If
            not, it's off to mac pro care I go.

            
            Lea

            
            On Apr 5, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Emily L. Ferguson wrote:

            
            > At 10:11 AM -0500 4/5/11, Lea Murphy wrote:

            >> I have a pro grade Lexar firewire 800 media card
            reader that has, overnight, decided to become very spotty on
            reading media cards.

            > 

            > Firewire 800? Interesting. I've never seen one of
            those, only Firewire 400, of which I have been using one for
            7 years or so now.

            > 

            >> Any suggestions on what else to try before I get a
            new one?

            > 

            > Canned air, or at least a firm blow into all ports,
            including the card reader. Cat and dog hair can work wonders
            on such things.

            > 

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