Switcher having trouble with card reader

[LordFluff]

Hi all

With years of PC experience I've just got my first Mac (pro). First problem - my card reader won't unmount. Well, you can drag it to the eject icon on the dock, but within a couple of seconds it has remounted itself. My plan is to buy a new card reader (the Sandisk Firewire one) unless anyone can advise that I'm missing something - the card reader works just fine under Windows.

Thanks

 

[Irish Dave]

Hi all

With years of PC experience I've just got my first Mac (pro). First problem - my card reader won't unmount. Well, you can drag it to the eject icon on the dock, but within a couple of seconds it has remounted itself. My plan is to buy a new card reader (the Sandisk Firewire one) unless anyone can advise that I'm missing something - the card reader works just fine under Windows.

Thanks

Sorry, that's a new one on me. Try another reader.

I have three different card readers and they work perfectly.

Now flash memory (pen drives) are another story.

Dave

 

[decksnap]

Dave

I've used many flash drives, some cheap, some expensive, and have never had a problem. What issues do you get?

 

[Eraserhead]

Hi all

With years of PC experience I've just got my first Mac (pro). First problem - my card reader won't unmount. Well, you can drag it to the eject icon on the dock, but within a couple of seconds it has remounted itself. My plan is to buy a new card reader (the Sandisk Firewire one) unless anyone can advise that I'm missing something - the card reader works just fine under Windows.

Thanks

If it has actually ejected properly just pull out the card reader, the only reason you have to eject it is that (unlike Windows) OS X doesn't copy to external storage immediately .

 

[Irish Dave]

I've used many flash drives, some cheap, some expensive, and have never had a problem. What issues do you get?

I use both PC's and Mac's in college and have found that some flash drives can be read by both PC's and Macs, while others can only be read by one or the other.

All the flash drives were formated on the same G5 Mac

Very strange.

Dave

 

[chasemac]

Just curious if you press command+e that you get the same result.

 

[LordFluff]

If it has actually ejected properly just pull out the card reader, the only reason you have to eject it is that (unlike Windows) OS X doesn't copy to external storage immediately .

I'm not sure what you mean. How could it have ejected properly if it reappears on the desktop seconds after ejecting?

 

[Ergolad]

Fellow Switcher: Me too

Same issue with me too. Cheap XD card reader connected to a BookEndz docking station on a new MacBook. Eject and then it reappears. I just try to pull it before it reappears. Problem is that I corrupted the card at one point I think because of this. Solutions?