Startech card reader 2000XL

Tone,

You must use 1.20 MPC-2000XL OS with IDE CF reader.
I have the 1GB Sandisk CF card that pictured above, and Sandisk Ultra II 2GB CF card (which is still sold in retail stores) that shown above (1GB shown above though) and both work fine.
I've tried with Trident 1GB CF card on my XL, and it not only that it does not work, it made XL to fail booting up. Obviously it doesn't work with XL. I think some of Trident 1GB cards work on XL (like some of member here reported), but it seems like it is depends on the batch. (There is a reason Sandisk CF cards are more expensive, I guess) I would stay away with those cheap brands for XL.
Before you blindly try other CF cards, make sure that your CF card reader is NON-swappable IDE CF card reader.
Also, double check all the connection again. the CF card reader does not have LED light, so it is hard tell whether power is fed or not. Make sure all the connection is solid. It is very common culprit.

Cleanup Smb Mess (a small OS X app) does NOT clean up ALL the hidden files though. However, Cleanup Smb Mess does clean up most of the mess OS X would leave on the folder, and works well with XL. I use Windows XP for transporting files on the CF card, because I don't have to worry about hidden files at all.
Hot-swappable CF card on 2000XL, on the other hands, it seems that it totally hates hidden files, even Cleanup Smb Mess does not work in this case.

Thanks JVC
Reader is non hot swap startech.
There is definately power to the card reader, and connections all good, I'm using same connector as the previous ZIP drive which works fine, although I will check again.
The 1Gb sandisk card and Kingston 2Gb do not work, waiting for delivery of 2Gb sandisk ultra II.
As mentioned, Transmit is a good way of removing hidden files, then ejecting with cleanup smb mess so as no extra files added through the process of ejecting (though all this means nothing if I can't even get the XL to see any card at all !)
I'll update this post soon
Peace
Tone

**UPDATE**
OK, the startech card reader def works OK, I've had joy with a Transcend 1Gb card (cheap off ebay)
I've ordered an 8Gb card to see if I can partition that to work OK, as it was only £1 more then the 1Gb card.
Will update when I get results
Many thanks to all who have offered advice
Tone

TokinTone wrote:**UPDATE**
OK, the startech card reader def works OK, I've had joy with a Transcend 1Gb card (cheap off ebay)
I've ordered an 8Gb card to see if I can partition that to work OK, as it was only £1 more then the 1Gb card.
Will update when I get results
Many thanks to all who have offered advice
Tone

So, your Transcend 1GB CF card works with your Startech IDE CF reader? I'm surprised that your Sandisk CF cards did not work with your CF card reader.
By the way, there are imitation (fake) Sandisk CF card circulating for long time. Make sure you don't have those! On Mac, you can use "System Profiler" to check vender and product info burnt on CF cards.

JVC wrote:

TokinTone wrote:**UPDATE**
OK, the startech card reader def works OK, I've had joy with a Transcend 1Gb card (cheap off ebay)
I've ordered an 8Gb card to see if I can partition that to work OK, as it was only £1 more then the 1Gb card.
Will update when I get results
Many thanks to all who have offered advice
Tone

So, your Transcend 1GB CF card works with your Startech IDE CF reader? I'm surprised that your Sandisk CF cards did not work with your CF card reader.
By the way, there are imitation (fake) Sandisk CF card circulating for long time. Make sure you don't have those! On Mac, you can use "System Profiler" to check vender and product info burnt on CF cards.

I bought one of those imitations for cheap just to test if they work in the MPC and they doesn't work... not really care because I only spend a couple bucks but definitively worth to try...