Tag : sony pcmcia, r reader, memory stick

Company : Sony List Price : $89.95 Amazon Price : $59.99 Used Price : $9.99 Average customer review :

Features

• This Sony Memory Stick(R) Reader connects to your laptops PCMCIA slot, letting you transfer files to and from the Memory Stick(R) & laptop
• It’s perfect for storing your files and reusing the Memory Stick(R) over and over!
• Works With Millions Of Windows 95/98 And Macintosh Laptop Computers
• 6.4 Megabits/Second Transfer Rate

Product Description

Memory Stick is the newest generation of digital data storage and transfer media. Memory Stick is an IC (integrated circuit) digital storage media, available in different capacities, and with a PC card adapter. The compact, thin, and durable Memory Stick is ideal for use in small digital audio/video electronics products. Memory Stick digital storage media is highly reliable. It is designed for forward compatibility with higher capacity models to be developed in the future, and will be expanded to incorporate digital copyright protection to record music and other protected content. Memory Stick PC card adapter allows you to use your Memory Stick media.

Customer reviews

only works intermittently on my mac
I have the Sony Memory Stick PC Card Adapter (MSAC-PC3) and it’s very unreliable on my mac (powerbook, osx 10.3.8). Most of the time it just doers not work at all. When i insert the memory stick the little red light flickers a bit but then nothing. If I shut my mac down completely, leave it off for a few minutes, then boot it again then the crd reader will sometimes work. All in all not a very satisfactory product for mac users.

Won’t work on MemoryStick Pro
It works great with the older MemoryStick (128Mb or smaller) and no driver is required. Just put the MemoryStick in and it works like a floppy drive.

However, it won’t work on MemoryStick Pro and MagicGate card.

If you want the newer model that compatible with MemoryStick Pro, get Sony MSAC-PC3 Memory Adapter instead.

Don’t buy the 3rd party reader
It worked only some of the time, usually my PC wouldn’t recognize the hardware. I sent it back, seller was very accomodating. Now I’ve ordered a genuine Sony reader.

Great - once I found the driver software.
The Strastechnologies 3rd-party card is a bargain and worked flawlessly ONCE I figured out something that the product descriptions (even on the Sony brand) don’t reveal. Specifically, if your PC is running Windows® XP (Home or Pro), ME, 2000, or 98SE operating systems, this card won’t work without the installation of driver software that is not included in the package! It took me a lot of research to get the correcct software directly from Sony. To save you the trouble, here is the link: http://ciscdb.sel.sony.com/cgi-bin/swu-install.pl?upd_id=1277&PASSVAL2=SMB and the driver file is MSFMTINST210.EXE. I would have given it 5 stars if this information had been enclosed. Go for the bargain!

Great product !!
This is a terrific product for laptop computer users on the go. I was carrying around an external 6-in-1 media reader, which took up a bit of space in my bag.

This PC Card adapter is slim and easily fits in a pocket. I inserted it into an available PC Card (also known as PCMCIA) slot in my XP laptop and it installed itself and read the files on my card immediately. (Although it recommended a reboot to work, I didn’t need to.)

I was concerned it would only read Sony brand memory sticks, but it has no problem reading Lexar. File transfer speed is pretty quick also… the images came in faster than when I used my external media reader.

All in, another excellent Sony product. Recommended.