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Panasonic PCD20
I just purchased a Panasonic PCD20 5 slot card reader. My problem is putting it on a separate FW bus so that a FW800 drive does not have to be daisy chained and possibly slowing down download times. I bought a Sonnet FW800 Expresscard adaptor to remedy this situation. The problem is it does not mount and the Sonnet tech has not heard of this happening. Does anyone have any insight to this? Maybe a panasonic representative on this forum has a solution?
Thanks in advance,
Lawrence -
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Does a drive mount to the express card? Does the reader mount to the system FW bus and an external drive to the exp. card?
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What OS are you on?
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So I did some double checking on what I was doing when using the card. First I am on 10.5.4 OS The specs on the card says it is compatible from 10.5 and up. When I mount the card in the expresscard slot it shows as an Icon on the menubar. When I click the Icon it has 3 options. Unknown vendor, Firewire card, and Power off. Of the 3 choices only the 3rd option power off is available to choose. The other 2 are grayed out and unfunctional. Starting to get really annoyed at the card and it’s plug and play ability.
It wont event mount with any FW800 drive I plug into it.Thanks,
Lawrence Lim -
And what machine are you trying to use this from? Exact specs please.
Jeremy
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I am trying to get everything to work together using a Macbook pro 2.6 processor with 4GB ram and 10.5.4 OSX . Any ideas? and thanks again for the reply.
Thanks,
Lawrence -
Go to the APple Menu > About this Mac > More Info.
Then check this website:
https://www.sonnettech.com/publicfiles/resources/macbookpro15id.html
Does your Mac match those settings?
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Thanks,
yes my macbookpro matches those setting on the sonnet site and then some. Bottom line is my computer excedes the min req. for the cards but still not working. I tried everything on the sonnet site and what the sonnet tech replied to but still no dice. Thanks again for the advice.
thanks,
lawrence -
If it matches, that means it WON’T work, especially if it’s model identifier 2,2 (the part that is circled).
Jeremy
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Jeremy,
Sorry, My MBP is the 17″ model and it does not match. Got side tracked with the last post due to frustration. Here are the specs.
Hardware Overview:Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro3,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.6 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP31.0070.B07
SMC Version: 1.18f4
Serial Number:
Sudden Motion Sensor:
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Hmm, then that is weird. It is obviously a Sonnet problem. Will they not swap out the card?
Jeremy
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