Addonics Cfast

[Tim Wilkinson]

Anyone using the Addonics Cfast esata card reader? Wondering if it's mac and red friendly. I'm also wondering if anyone is using the Addonics external port multiplier with a Macbook Pro? Let me know.

 

[Tim Wilkinson]

Bump

 

[Tim Wilkinson]

Bueller?? Bueller???

 

[J. Bernard Vallon]

Bump. I'd also like to hear. We got an Addonics Sata reader that is ment to be internal, and it worked in PCs, and when we hooked it up externally via a Expresscard Esata adapter, but it wouldnt work internally in our tower. We tabled it for now, but that little external esata one makes me wonder...

 

[Maz Mawlawi]

I was under the impression that their cfast reader is only for their Cfast cards.....

UPDATE:
Addonics just confirmed to me that this reader is ONLY for their CFast card. Not compatible with RED cards or any other CF cards.

 

[Jean Wallez]

http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/adsacf.asp
This one works on pc with Silicon Image sata chipset controler card and RED CF cards.

 

[Tim Wilkinson]

Thanks Maz for finding that out. Their website had this on it:


* Internal DigiDrive (flash reader)
* External DigiDrive (flash reader)
* SD / CF / CFast DigiAdapter
* PCMCIA / ExpressCard DigiAdapter

So I thought maybe it would do CF and SD also. How about the port multiplier? Anybody tried that? I bought a Sonnet QIO and it didn't work,
so I'm trying to come up with a combination that is similar to that

 

[rod bradley]

I haven't used that -- but do use one of the Addonics little esata 2.5" 2 drive Raid boxes for remote in the field downloads. Very fast (way beats FW 800 on laptop) and Raid 1 protected. And easy to switch drives in and out. Not reliable bus power, so have a small battery to power when I'm really out in remote locations. For $100 (unpopulated) -- hard to beat.