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Originally Posted by Tannin
Err... hello? What other sort of Microdrive is there?
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Tannin; This is real genue Seagate 5 GB microdrive. The thing is they purposely made it incompatible with cameras. It works fine otherwise in MP3 devices. The technical explanation is that this was IDE version only, not CF II compatible because of manufacturers hardware modifications. Initial versions of same card could be used in camera but because it was so slow in writing reading, (Damaging the reputation of Seagate...HAH) it seems Seagate decided to make it castrated for camera instead of taking it off the market completely and used it only in MP3s. On those days if you remember, the cards were quite expensive and this one (Extremely high capacity for the day) probably came of an MP3 device, or was designated and never got into MP3 device and was sold to me by Geek.com as camera microdrive. To make a long story short did cause me a lot of trouble, needless to say that was my last purchase form geeks.com who otherwise got several thousands of dollars form me on prior purchases. There is a good thread about this one in another photosite that if interested I will send you the link. BTW you still see some of these sold on ebay to innocent buyers....
Stephen; Micro drives don't follow your otherwise correct statement. You drop a microdrive from a short distance, most likely that would be end of it. Just thinking of moving particles at such high speed in such a small and compact device turns every hair on my head fully errected...
