Memory Stick (Sony standard) not recognized on OS 10.11.6

[amccallum1]

I have an all-in-one memory card reader – standard USB plug-and-play.

It works fine on my old Mac Pro running OS 10.11.6, EXCEPT with a stack of old Sony-format MEMORY STICKS – the computer seems not to recognize them at all.

Any ideas?

 

[kenoh]

No idea, all I can think is has the support for the memory stick file format stopped?

Can you plug it into the Mac Pro and open Disk Utility and see the file system that is on the memory stick? I suspect based on age of these cards that they may be running the 16 bit FAT file system. MacOS I think only supports FAT32 or exFAT going forward.

 

[kenoh]

I think if you get macfuse it helps with file systems access.

 

[amccallum1]

No idea, all I can think is has the support for the memory stick file format stopped?

Can you plug it into the Mac Pro and open Disk Utility and see the file system that is on the memory stick? I suspect based on age of these cards that they may be running the 16 bit FAT file system. MacOS I think only supports FAT32 or exFAT going forward.

That makes a lot of sense; I didn't know. Many thanks.

 

[MacNut]

The big problem with Sony is their proprietary formats.

 

[amccallum1]

Can anyone say, 'Betamax'...?

 

[MacNut]

Can anyone say, 'Betamax'...?

Betamax was the better standard, it just didn't have the support that VHS did.

To me Mini Disk comes to mind.

 

[kenoh]

Betamax was the better standard, it just didn't have the support that VHS did.

To me Mini Disk comes to mind.

By support you mean they actively stopped the adult entertainment industry from soiling their format and so lost to VHS?

 

[MacNut]

By support you mean they actively stopped the adult entertainment industry from soiling their format and so lost to VHS?

Wasn't there also a licensing issue that Sony was too strict with the standard. Pioneer was more open with VHS.