Iogear GFR280 8 In 1 Memory Card Reader

• Compact Flash Signal Voltage - N/A
• Smart Media Support - Yes
• Memory Stick Support - Yes

This device is horrible, you cannot gracefully eject a Microdrive under Mac OS X. All attempts to do so simply make the drive re-appear on your desktop. You are forced to pull the card out "hot," and while the product claims to be "hot swappable" it has resulted in data loss for me. On top of that, once you pull the card out, it won't accept another one until you reboot the system.

I've emailed support, filled out the form on their webpage, and called (only to be directed to contact support through email). No response.

I can understand that the device may not work well with Mac OS, but it should not claim to be compatible.

Lastly, this device does not support Microdrives larger than 1GB. With 2 and 4 gig cards being used more often now due to increase in camera resolution, this reader has a very limited lifespan.

I spend too much time making photographs (both casually and professionally) to risk losing data to this reader. Beware with this thing.

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I've used this device for about 3 years with Compact Flash devices up to 1GB, under both Windows and Linux, without any problems.

However, my wife just got a new camera and a 2GB SD card. This card won't work with this reader under either Windows or Linux; Windows just accesses the device for a long time and eventually doesn't see anything there. Linux won't mount the device due to a reported 1024 byte physical sector size which mismatches with the camera's 512 byte formatting.

The SD card works fine with the built-in SD slot on my Dell laptop, so I know the problem is with the IOGear reader, and not the SD card.

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Seems to work fine with my 2GB Compact Flash card, but it won't read either of my 2GB SD cards.

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I haven't been able to get this device to work. I have only tried it on Vista computers and w/ one 256 MB CF card, so maybe it works in other situations. I installed the drivers, which seemed to install properly. The light on the device lights up orange, and I saw a flicker of green once, but my computers don't recognize the device or the CF card in it. My card works fine in my camera and w/ another reader. I'll try to return it, but probably can't b/c the sys. reqs. don't claim it works w/ Vista. I'll update this review if my attempts are fruitful, either for return or for getting it to read my card.