Sony Floppy Disc Interface for Memory Stick (MSAC-FD2MA)

Features:

• With the MSAC-FD2MA Floppy Disc Interface in place you can read from and write to Sony Memory Stick(R) media in your ever-willing, sadly underestimated floppy drive
• Up to 240 Kilobytes per second data transfer rate
• Compatible with Windows 95/98/NT 4.0 and Mac OS 7.61>8.6
• Memory Stick media is used in a growing and diversifying array of devices including camcorders, most Sony Mavica(R) series digital cameras, personal digital recorders, personal digital audio devices

Accessories:

Sony MSA64A 64 MB Memory Stick Media

Customer Reviews:

Works for a PC, not on a Mac [Posted on 2002-05-31]
A new writer recently got a Sony Cybershot and brought in his Memory Stick and disk adapter for us to download his pictures onto our Macintosh systems. Here's what we found out:
1: It does not work with external USB floppy drives (took forever to come up- and then it showed a blank 32K disk.
2: Switched to an older 61xx PowerPC Mac - the floppy drive showed up faster, but showed a blank 41K disk.
3: tried using the utility CD that came with it - It had a conflict with the PC Exchange/File Exchange extension. We turned THAT off and restarted- and the utility promptly started up and froze the machine.
4: tried using the gadget on a Mavica FD 87 Sony Camera - it didn't work. that answered my long-standing question on that matter.

...

Needed item for most computers, but costly [Posted on 2002-12-14]
My computer doesn't have a port for a Memory Stick, so using any one of Sony's products that use them is impossible without using this adapter. Sony's digital cameras and digital voice recorders (why I have one) all use this media format, so forgetting to buy one can prevent your enjoyment of your own equipment.

To use the adapter, you just slide the Stick into the adapter, and then the adapter goes into your regular 3.5" disk drive, looking just like a regular disk. There is some software included to assist in the applications you will use with it, inluding the voice recognition program I originally hoped to use, but is sold separately.

I don't really know why the item is as much as it is, but it is necessary for most folks. I guess one way of looking at it is that it offers the same functionality as a Compact Flash card reader, just more expensive.

Good Idea, not everything works [Posted on 2003-02-07]
My company purchased this flopy disc interface so that we could let any of the graphic artists pop the card into the machines without moving the USB reader we have around.. unfortunatly the card won't work on a dual processor system, so none of our graphic artists can use it. I think for the price we paid for it, it should be able to work on any system!

Works fine and just as expected [Posted on 2003-09-25]
The floppy disk adapter perfectly suits people like myself who still have old computers without USB. One first installs the software from the included CD and then formats the memory stick. Be warned that you had better print or save any images you already might have on the memory stick before formatting as all data is lost in formatting.
Once you've formatted you can take pictures and immediately upload and print them if desired by inserting the memeory stick to the floppy and inserting the floppy into your FD drive.

Works great, BUT...... [Posted on 2006-03-13]
A word of caution, It will not work on any computer with DUAL CORE PROCESSOR.

Click here for more details and discount information...