[HELP] Canon digital Rebel + Hitachi MicroDrive - no go?

Hey all

just curious - i managed to get a Hitachi Micro Drive 4g model number HMS360404D5CF00, this is one of the OEM drives that has the white label.

i was able to get it for $125 along with a laptop i got.

Now, i put it into my rebel and it just gives me an error - according to hitachi they say their micro drives are compatible, unless i am reading it wrong,

http://www.hitachigst.com/hddt/situd...neral?Openview

Does anyone else have one of these drives and a digital rebel and can confirm it works?

Unfortuantly the Sandisk 6 in 1 reader i have they say not to use the microdrives with - and it does not work. I have a PCMIMIMIMIM what everslot adapter, but it does not seem towork with my old tecra 510CDT laptop (waiting for new one to arrive)

Any help be appreciated.

Mathiau-
I can't remember the exact details, but there's a formatting issue with those cards. Your camera has to be compatible with FAT or FAT 32, or something like that. I just did a search on the forums for the original press release buty couldn't find it. I'll take another look and see if I can dig that up. There are definitely compatibility issues with those cards, though. Whether they apply to the Digital Rebel or now, I don't know.

You have to upgrade the firmware to v. 1.1.1 on the rebel for it to read fat32 which is required for any media above 2gb.

Get it here: http://consumer.usa.canon.com/ir/con...=9430#firmware

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Originally Posted by Mathiau

Hey all

just curious - i managed to get a Hitachi Micro Drive 4g model number HMS360404D5CF00, this is one of the OEM drives that has the white label.

i was able to get it for $125 along with a laptop i got.

Now, i put it into my rebel and it just gives me an error - according to hitachi they say their micro drives are compatible, unless i am reading it wrong,

http://www.hitachigst.com/hddt/situd...neral?Openview

Does anyone else have one of these drives and a digital rebel and can confirm it works?

Unfortuantly the Sandisk 6 in 1 reader i have they say not to use the microdrives with - and it does not work. I have a PCMIMIMIMIM what everslot adapter, but it does not seem towork with my old tecra 510CDT laptop (waiting for new one to arrive)

Any help be appreciated.

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According the all the reviews I can find to read on the digi Rebel, they should be FAT12/16 and 32 compliant. I'm wondering if perhaps your new laptop runs windows nt, 2000 or xp, all of which are nt based operating systems, and usually utilize ntfs for their hard drives, and if so, perhaps the 4 gb drive was formatted using ntfs as well. Check the formatting on the 4 gb drive and see if it's formated with ntfs and not fat. just stretching here, I don't know if its possible for a removeable drive to be formatted for ntfs, but it should, since our external ikebana drive for backups on our server uses ntfs for its formatting.