Anyone Using 4 GB CF Cards in Their MK II Yet?

[MarkRomine]

Anyone using 4 GB CF cards w/their MK II and experiencing download problems? Here is what is happening and I am not sure if this is a formatting issue with the MK II, a card reader problem or possibly a bad card.

This is a bit bizarre, I just used this new Ridata 4 GB 80x card that I got the other day for the first time today and I can not get Windows XP to see it and on my Mac when inserting the card into my Lexar firewire reader, "You have inserted a disk containing no volumes that Mac OS X can read. To continue with disk inserted click ignore," and at the bottom of the window I have three button choices 'Initialize,' 'Ignore' or 'Eject.' DPP on the Mac can not see the images on the card but it can see the camera. EVU can see both the camera and the images. I can see the images on the card while the card is in the camera.

I was able to DL the images from the card while in the camera using EVU and not one of the images was corrupted. So I reformatted the card inserted it back into the firewire reader while connected to the Mac and got the same message as above. Yet all other card sizes 256, 512, 1GB and 2GB are all working with the reader. Does anyone know if there is some kind of limit to the card size when using this reader? Has anyone else experienced DL problems with 4 GB cards?

To recap I can not get the firewire reader to mount on either platform with this card in the reader, all other cards are viewable using this reader. Mac version of DPP can not see the images while the Mac version of EVU can.

Is anyone else using 4 GB CF cards in their MK II have such an experience?

Mark

[StanJirman]

I use Lexar 4GB pretty much exclusively in my 1Ds2 and never had any issues whatsoever.

- Stan

[Rutger_Geerling]

Using the 4G Lexar. Didn't have any problems so far but I was advised to update the firmware of the camera before using it.

[MarkRomine]

Rutger:

I was advised to update the firmware of the camera before using it.

Good suggestion so I updated to 1.2.1 from 1.1.0 but it did not make any difference.

Interestingly, when I select the 'initialize' option in OS X it launches the Mac Disk Utility and displays the card along with all my mounted drives in the left hand column and it says that volume 1394 (or the 4 GB CF) has 706.8 GB of space.

Mark

[MarkRomine]

An update, I put this card into my G4 laptop in the card slot and it mounted just fine so apparently the problem maybe with the card reader possibly not being able to read card sizes above 2 GB. This is the older purple Lexar FireWire reader.

Mark

[NillToulme]

I use the purple Lexar CF eater without problems with 4GB and 6GB MD's, but that's on a Win XP system.

Nill
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[MarkRomine]

Nill:

Are you using 4 GB CF or MD with the purple Lexar reader? I can not get my 4 GB Ridata to read under XP or OS X using the purple Lexar Reader.

Mark

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