CTRL+ALT+DEL Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 K kids, this is my first question in this forum, i'm sure i'll be back. i'm not sure if this should be under mac or mac x86. i want to find a way to get drivers or in some way make pcmcia compatible with a newer mac. i don't completely feel comfortable making a complete hackintosh, (seems like a lotta work). but i need to make old pcmcia compatible with new macs. this probably doesn't make much sense. here's what i'm trying to do. i have a hvx 200, it's a hd p2 card camera. p2 cards are in the pc card form factor. they're special tiny raids inside of a pc card. they cost a minimum of $900 for the 16gb, 1700 for the 32gb. so if you are, let say, out doing a multiple camera shoot, data rate gets bottle necked unless you have unlimited p2 cards, and i'm not steve jobs so i can't buy a pile of those cards. the thing is, in shooting in maximum resolution 1 gig equals 1 minute. that is almost okay with a laptop, a dual adapter for going pc card to express card and then out to a small external firewire raid. but it takes as much time to offload one card as it does to fill one up. so let's say you have a 2 camera setup. well everything is going to stop if you get to much footage to quickly. when the sun is going down and you were renting some gear, talent etc for the day, this is really bad. so i want to build a little mac in a hard case with extra drives and multiple pc card slots. i want to get the footage of as quick as possible, and not have all of these cords, adapters, etc. so i've come up with multiple ideas on how to do this, my big issue is, there are no pcmcia slots that are osx compatible. i heard in a different forum that the driver was available some where around here. you will make my day, week, month, if you could give me some good relevant info, thanks n advance Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/100740-pcmcia-on-a-new-mac/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaporATX Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 Panasonic makes a five slot pcmcia reader with a Firewire 800 interface, but that baby costs as much as a decked out Macbook pro, so I doubt that is much help to you. Here's the link anyway: https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/pro-av/sales_o/p2/p2drive/ Is OS X compatible and would be perfect for what you are talking about... except for the price Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/100740-pcmcia-on-a-new-mac/#findComment-719583 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oline Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Hi Ctrl Alt Del I've been on this for some months, Plenty guys about trying to get a Budget priced PCMCIA (P2) solution into late model Mac's. I posted this on drivers section , but it seems guys here have windows boxes and Mac software. not much good to a Macpro owner. anyway --http://forum.insanelymac.com/lofiversion/index.php/t99592.html I see Panasonic will supply a PCIe to 5 card reader in sept-oct 08, it will compliment the USB / Firewire reader they already have, these are not cheap units, as stated they are the cost a new computer. I have a 4 card reader in my Macpro (early 08). under leopard it dosen't work, BUT booting up on Bootcamp XP partition it does work well. Leoprad is the issue, Sadly there's no information out there as yet, it's just too new,. down the track it will be more easily understood. I've tried many drivers in the vain hope some may work, no luck to date. Cheers Tom K Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/100740-pcmcia-on-a-new-mac/#findComment-722162 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTRL+ALT+DEL Posted April 28, 2008 Author Share Posted April 28, 2008 oh bother, thanks for the reply. yeah there is their over priced reader that is usb(great job panny). you'd think they could have at least made it firewire, infiniband, esata, for how much it costs. but who cares about bottle necks when you can just sell your vital organs to pay for more p2 cards. it's just sad considering there are those cheap pc card readers that have no mac support. i wish someone with higher powers of geek dom could just leak out a driver. i mean with a driver i could buy 100 of these(below) compared with the panny option? http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Se...1&CatId=109 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/100740-pcmcia-on-a-new-mac/#findComment-726937 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oline Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 Hi CAD, These cards are no good in the G5 or macpro's , that card is PCI only, it will work in a windows box with P2, but no joy in a Mac. The SIIG card will work in G4 PCI based box, I have one working, see my site - olinevideo.com.au. Now that Fuji is about to release a P2 card soon, there maybe some hope for a budget priced reader for current mac towers, Mac laptops are well covered with the expresscard to pcmcia adapters from amtron and the Duel systems adapter- http://www.duel-systems.com/products/adapters.aspx Oh well, we just wait or make do. I'm now working on connecting my windows laptop with XP and PCMCIA reader to my Macpro via ethernet cable, will post my results when it gets going. (some hardware issues to work thru) Cheers Tom K Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/100740-pcmcia-on-a-new-mac/#findComment-733689 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTRL+ALT+DEL Posted May 4, 2008 Author Share Posted May 4, 2008 thanks, i already have the duel system adapter and it works great for a one camera shoot, i am just trying to figure out how to set up for a multi camera shoot, that and something that all comes in one sturdy travel case, not a pile of wires and peripherals, if i had such a contraption i would be the coolest kid on the block. maybe i'll just have to build a hackintosh or learn how to run linux, either option just seems like a lot of unnecessary trouble just because apple doesn't have a pcmcia driver. and i really hate windows, which most of you can sympathize with Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/100740-pcmcia-on-a-new-mac/#findComment-734779 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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