I have recently come across a problem with my 64mb SanDisk SmartMedia cards. Both cards are 6 months old and worked fine up to this point.

I took a few pictures on each card. I then loaded it into my SmartDisk Flashpath in order to print the pictures, but the smartmedia could not be accessed. I kept getting "smartmedia can not be accessed" or "smartmedia is write protected" or "make sure smartmedia is loaded properly".

I could not find a a way to access the data. Thinking it might have been a flashpath problem, I loaded my 32mb and 8mb card into the flashpath and they both worked fine.

I can access the data on the 64mb cards by using the cable from camera to pc.

Can anyone give me any ideas as to the problem. Have flashpaths been known to have problems with larger smartmedia mbs? HELP PLEASE!!!

Thanks, Julie

-- julie raab (aplus@panetwork.com), September 08, 2001