Unable to Mount Compact Flash Card Via Pcmcia In 10.4

[JonathanOSX]

I used to do this all the time and it worked great. I would just stick my little CF into this adaptor and plug it into my 17" PB's PCMCIA slot. It would show up on the desktop as a volume and I was good to go.

Somewhere along the line this stopped working (not sure if it was the move to 10.4 or not).

Now when I do this, I still get the little "menu-ling" that shows that a PC card is active, it even identifies the particular brand of CF that is inserted and I can do "power off" (which does nothing).

I don't see anything visible in Disk Utilities.

I've tried clearing caches and clearing out the /Volumes directory of hidden files.

I've heard mention of unloading or removing .kext files but haven't seen anything clear enough to actually perform.

Any advice would be welcomed:

When I insert the card I get the following in the system.log:

Nov 4 13:24:23 JonathanPB kernel[0]: IOPCCard16Device: binding socket 0 function 0 to card services.
Nov 4 13:24:23 JonathanPB kernel[0]: IOPCCard16Device::matchPropertyTable entered.
Nov 4 13:24:23 JonathanPB kernel[0]: IOPCCardDevice: VersionOneInfo[0], "SCR241 PCMCIA"(match string) != "SunDisk"(CIS string).
Nov 4 13:24:23 JonathanPB kernel[0]: pccard45,401: family specific matching fails
Nov 4 13:24:23 JonathanPB kernel[0]: IOPCCard16Device::matchPropertyTable entered.
Nov 4 13:24:23 JonathanPB kernel[0]: IOPCCardDevice: VersionOneInfo[0], "SCR243 PCMCIA"(match string) != "SunDisk"(CIS string).
Nov 4 13:24:23 JonathanPB kernel[0]: pccard45,401: family specific matching fails
Nov 4 13:24:23 JonathanPB kernel[0]: IOPCCard16Device::matchPropertyTable entered.
Nov 4 13:24:23 JonathanPB kernel[0]: IOPCCardDevice: VersionOneInfo[0], "SCR24x PCMCIA"(match string) != "SunDisk"(CIS string).
Nov 4 13:24:23 JonathanPB kernel[0]: pccard45,401: family specific matching fails
Nov 4 13:24:23 JonathanPB kernel[0]: IOPCCard16Device::matchPropertyTable entered.
Nov 4 13:24:23 JonathanPB kernel[0]: IOPCCardDevice: VersionOneInfo[0], "HP"(match string) != "SunDisk"(CIS string).
Nov 4 13:24:23 JonathanPB kernel[0]: pccard45,401: family specific matching fails
Nov 4 13:24:23 JonathanPB kernel[0]: ApplePCCard16ATA::start(provider=0x2a26700, this=0x2c63300) starting
Nov 4 13:24:23 JonathanPB kernel[0]: IOPCCard info: IOPCCard16Enabler::configure using index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 255, io 0x0000-0x000f
Nov 4 13:24:23 JonathanPB kernel[0]: ApplePCCard16ATA::start(provider=0x2a26700, this=0x2c63300) ending

 

[simbalala]

I have the same thing and mine works just fine with 10.4.3

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

What format is the CF Card in? If you use it with a digital camera or some device like that, can you try formatting the card with the camera/device, then trying to mount it via the adaptor again?