Delock FireWire 800 CF Reader on Mac OS X Yosemite and El Capitan

Delock 91694 FireWire 800 CompactFlash Reader and Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10+)

Delock 91694 FireWire 800 CompactFlash Reader and Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11+)

See respective webpages for full information, including test machine specifications.

Using Elan's U111-M SRAM and ATA Flash PCMCIA PC Card Drive with Unix-like Systems [first draft]

EverythingHerePlus.com announces a first draft of a document which outlines the use of the BSD and Linux compatible USB reader for PCMCIA PC Card SRAM and ATA Flash memory devices. While the draft isn't complete, experienced users will have no problems using the command line instructions to complete tasks.

Elan's U111-M PCMCIA PC Card reader for SRAM and ATA Flash memory devices is unique in that the reader itself brokers all the interfacing with the PC Card and presents itself to the host computer as a USB mass storage device. In addition to working on The Windows platforms, the device works with various versions of BSDs and Linux. Because of this, the U111-M allows users of Unix-like platforms to perform actions on these cards using common command line tools that usually require specialized and expensive software for The Windows. EverythingHerePlus hopes the document will be helpful to those wanting to deploy the U111-M with Unix-like systems.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Operating Systems uname -a results
Plugging in PC Card SRAM or ATA Flash
PC Card Partition Information
Mounting PC Card SRAM or ATA Flash
Unmount PC Card SRAM or ATA Flash
Formatting/Erasing PC Card SRAM or ATA Flash
Binary Image File to PC Card SRAM or ATA Flash
Binary Notes
Comparing Binary to PC Card SRAM
Manual Checksums Binary vs. PC Card SRAM or ATA Flash
View Hexadecimal of PC Card Memory Area (or Binary File Copies)

FireRepeater-800 PRO gets a glowing review from IT Enquirer

IT Enquirer's Erik Vlietinck summed up his review of the 4 port FireWire 800 FireRepeater-800 PRO repeater hub with this glowing endorsement:

In contrast to its competitors, Unibrain’s FireRepeater-800 PRO has a wall mounting bracket to secure the unit in place, and the ability to screw-lock your FireWire cables in place. I would recommend the Unibrain FireRepeater-800 PRO to anyone wanting to connect more devices to his computer than he can daisy-chain, and up to a longer distance than is possible without a repeater device. [full review]

The FireWire 800 four port repeater hub, along with the five and three port models of the FireRepeater line are all available at EverythingHerePlus. For people needing a FireWire 400 model, we still stock the Three Port FireWire 400 Repeater Hub.

Resources:

FireWire 800 Hubs and Repeaters 3 Port, 4 Port, and 5 Port IEEE 1394b
FireWire 800 Hubs for New iMacs and Macs as easy as 3, 4, 5!
Power Supply Information for FireWire Repeater Hubs like
Unibrain's FireRepeater Line
EverythingHerePlus Seller Reviews

Power Supply Information for FireWire Repeater Hubs like Unibrain's FireRepeater Line

Power Supply Information for FireWire Repeater Hubs Like Unibrain's Fire Repeater Line

12VDC 3A External Power Supply/Adapter for Unibrain FireWire Devices

This versatile adapter provides up to 3A stable regulated 12V DC output. For use with Unibrain Fire Repeaters, Fire-i Digital cameras and Unibrain FireWire External Hard Drives. It provides power for firewire devices on laptops that do not provide power through the firewire ports and can provide additional power for devices connected in an extended link to desktop systems.

• PS-12VDC-UB for United States Type A outlets
• PS-12VDC-UB-EUROPE for European Type C/F outlets
• Others available on special order, contact us with outlet type

Features

• DC Output: 12V / 3A
• AC Input: 100-240Vac / 1.2A 50-60Hz
• Designed for Unibrain FireWire Repeater Hubs and other FireWire devices
• Works with FireRepeater-800 PRO Five (5) Port 2503 / FW8-FIO-UB5PRH
• Works with FireRepeater-800 PRO Four (4) Port 2502 / FW8-FIO-UB4PRH
• Works with FireRepeater-800 PRO Three (3) Port 2501 / FW8-FIO-UB3PRH
• Works with FireRepeater-400 Three (3) Port 1610 / FW-FIO-UB3PRH
• UL and CE Approved

Five, Four, and Three Port FireWire 800 Repeater Hubs -- FireRepeater-800 Pro

FireWire 800 Hubs for New iMacs and Macs as Easy as 3, 4, 5!

U111-M Q&A, Compatibility with Mac OS X?

Question: Interested in purchasing the USB to PC card reader/writer but i want to make sure it is compatible with Apple computers and OS X.

Answer: Unfortunately, the U111-M currently doesn't work with Mac OS X as of this writing (January 2010). We've tested it extensively under Linux (Xubuntu Linux 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) amd64 edition), and even discovered viable work-around methods to get the U111M to work with OpenBSD (OpenBSD 4.6 beta i386 edition). However, the way the U111-M presents itself to Mac OS X precludes using even low level commands like diskutil and mount_msdos from Terminal. Mac OS X sees the U111M reader, and even the capacity of the inserted PCMCIA PC Card, but can't read the MBR of the PCMCIA PC Card, and hence is unable to treat it as a filesystem.

We're not sure if this is Elan or Apple's fault, but we're just as disappointed that it doesn't work with the Mac since we're Mac users too. If you have a spare Linux or OpenBSD machine, we can send you instructions for getting the U111M to work with those systems. U111-M also works with Windows 2000, XP 32, Vista 32.

If you have no need to read PCMCIA PC Card SRAM, and just need to read PCMCIA PC Card ATA Flash, we do have two different combinations of products that are well supported under Mac OS X.

PCM-CR-UEMUL03 MotionFlash32 USB 2.0 to 5 Slot Multi-Card Read-Writer 
in conjunction with the
ADP-ATA-CF CompactFlash Type I to 16-bit PC Card Type I/II Adapter for ATA Flash

or

PCM-CR-FW81ECF-02 CFFire800 Pro FireWire 800 to UDMA CompactFlash Drive Read-Writer 
in conjunction with the
ADP-ATA-CF CompactFlash Type I to 16-bit PC Card Type I/II Adapter for ATA Flash

Ordinarily we would recommend the FireWire solution because of overwhelming speed advantages, but ATA Flash PCMCIA PC Cards are so slow (PIO mode 4 -- max), that even USB 2.0 is more than adequate to read and write to them.

technology musings: FireWire 800 Hubs for New iMacs and Macs as easy as 3, 4, 5!

EverythingHerePlus.com offers 3, 4, and 5 port FireWire 800 Repeater Hubs. Great for new Macs, iMacs, and other computing environments utilizing high performance FireWire 800 peripherals.

Checkout technology musings: FireWire 800 Hubs for New iMacs and Macs as easy as 3, 4, 5! for more information.