Maxell announces SDHC-compliant card reader

by Evan Blass, posted Jun 7th 2006 at 10:05AM

Accessory manufacturers like Hitachi-owned Maxell must love new memory card formats almost as much as we hate them, because each tiny new card that hits the market requires a corresponding round of high-profit-margin peripherals to support it. We already knew that the new high-capacity SD version 2.0 (or SDHC) cards would not work in readers that don't support the FAT32 file format, so Maxell has leveraged this incompatibility to come up with a new 5-in-1 reader that will support the 4+GB cards when they hit the market, along with MMC, MemoryStick/MS Pro, and our old favorite, xD. Better known as the UA20-SDMSXD, the new reader will be available sometime this summer -- about the same time we're expecting the first SDHC cards from Panasonic.

Filed under: Peripherals, Storage

Tags: card readers, CardReaders, fat32, hitachi, maxell, memorystick, memorystick pro, MemorystickPro, mermory cards, MermoryCards, mmc, panasonic, sd, sdhc, secure digital high capacity, SecureDigitalHighCapacity, storage, ua20-sdmsxd, xd

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kit @ Feb 13th 2007 9:27AM

my maxell UA20-MLT5.WH is not recognised by my G4

OSX 10.3.9

any suggestions

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