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  1. Rick
    Member

    Hi all,

    I recently, bought the K10D, (Firmware 1.2) shooting in RAW DNG and using two 2GB SanDisk Extreme III Card.
    I have had the problem that when uploading the files onto my PC or a friends Mac, using an internal cardreader on the PC and an External Cardreader on the Mac. That after 60files (approx. 1GB) the PC and Mac both have crash and the rest of the files on the card are no longer readable by either computer, on the camera they are all viewable. I have even tried copying 5 at a time but after the 60th or so "lock-up". And after removing the card and reinserting it in the pc you can’t even drag and drop or copy the files, automatic lock-up. I don't think it’s the RAM on the PC which has 1GB and the Mac has 3! And a duo core processor.
    I have also tried shooting the card near full (115pics) uploading "from the camera" approx. 50 files then erasing the uploaded files, in Camera and then uploading the rest, that worked. After that success I erased all files in camera reformatted shot 102 pics and hooked the camera back up too the PC and copied all 120 pics in one lump without any problem.
    My friend, a professional Photographer has politely suggested that I get rid of the camera, which I really don’t want to do, but if this problem consists I might have to take his advice.
    This has happened after shooting Wedding Photos. And you can imagine the look on his face when this happened on his computer…not good, not good at all, he’s Italian and I don’t speak Italian but I know what he was yelling wasn’t good .

    Greatings from Germany
    Rick

    Posted: 2007-07-21 20:31:48 #

  2. Vitali
    Key Master

    That's really strange.

    But I doubt it's a camera problem. Looks like SD card glitch.

    Try another card (brand/model) or try to format this SD card in PC / Mac, not in camera.

    Posted: 2007-07-21 21:44:07 #

  3. Rick
    Member

    Hi agen,

    Well this is what I did, I took both Cards (SanDisk 2GB Extreme III) deleted all files and formatted them both (in Camera). Shot approx. 115 photos on both cards, connected the Camera to my PC.
    Opened them using “Explorer” and copied them to my hard drive all files in one shot with no problems. PC ran quite and transfer was quick.

    Now when I tried this using my internal card reader just as in the past at the 60th file or at approx. 950MB it crashed and I get a failure message “Data can not be read wrong Parameter”(?) and this is with both cards.
    The PC started getting lauder at about the 56th file but I checked my “Task Manager” and I was running right before the crash at, CPU approx.20-30% and RAM was at around 350MB, like I said I have a Gig RAM.

    After the cards or maybe the card reader (?) crashed I then again reconnected the Camera and had no problems copying all data from both cards.

    I don’t think it has to do with Explorer because like I said, we tried this on a Mac with an external card reader and it locked his Mac up big time. He couldn’t even run the Mac down, had to use the power button to restart it. This has never happened in the past 3 years he’s had the machine.

    Camera is set in RAW DNG, as you all know these are approx. 16MB files, if that has anything to do with it. Maybe I should try shooting in JPEG. Fill the cards up to about 2/3rds (that’s around 300 pics!) and see if it’s a volume thing?

    Rick

    Posted: 2007-07-22 14:30:11 #

  4. Vitali
    Key Master

    Hmmm... My Fujitsu-Siemens PC laptop's internal SD cardreader went dead after half a year. Nor Windows nor Ubuntu just can't recognize it. One of my friend's Acer had the same problem. It's pretty common.

    But why Mac can't do this? 2Gb cards are usually formated as FAT file system. 16Mb is far from FAT filesize limit.

    Don't you use some special software to download files from SD card?

    Posted: 2007-07-22 17:18:28 #

  5. Rick
    Member

    This is what I heard form a member in another Forum:
    "conclusion: not every card reader supports Extreme 3, its too fast for them! espeacially built in card reader, actually Scan Disk has a dedicated card reader for Extreme 3. try and get one for yourself, this should end your data transfering problem".
    This seams to be quit logical for me. I hope its that simple.

    Posted: 2007-07-22 18:33:47 #

  6. rvannatta
    Member

    It may depend on the computer.

    I have a windows 2000 computer with adobe photo elements 3.0. --it chokes on the K10 raw files---either raw format. says they are 'unreadable'
    JPGS work fine.

    But photoelements 5 installed on my laptop
    which has windows XP has no problems.

    though I have a lot of RAM in the old w2k machine
    (1 gig or more), it just isn't up to the occasion, though it handles the raw files from the istD just fine.

    From my perspective, the w2k operating system
    though as good as XP for most things has some
    limitations in it when it comes to managing very large files. IT is pretty quick to go toes up ifyou load Google earth as well.

    Posted: 2007-08-27 20:19:55 #

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