Media Card Reader Upgrade The Family

It natively runs 10.8.5 and I try newer OSs via an external HDD so I wont break things that my family depends upon and are working for the most part with 10.8.5.

The most recent ability that Ive learned that 10.11.1 cant do anymore is read SD media cards (the last capability Ive discovered that no longer works correctly in 10.11.1 is Spotlight cant seem to handle large number of items as a search filter).

So, I tried two different media card readers with both 10.11.1 and 10.8.5 using the same computer, cable, SD media card and CF media card.

Using 10.8.5, the card readers can read both SD and CF in both card readers.

Using 10.11.1, the card readers can read the CF card but not the SD card.

Media Card Reader Upgrade The Family

So does anyone know how I will be able to read SD media cards if I upgrade the family iMac (24-inch Mid 2007) to 10.11.X or will I need to have an external HDD with 10.8.5 loaded to get that functionality TIA.

Ive got a Lexar SD card reader that no longer works, but I dont know if it ever worked in Yosemite or Mavericks.

My CF card readers never worked past about Snow Leopard, so theyve been gone for quite some time.

Also you can always partition your Mac to have 10.8.5 on one partition while having 10.11 on the other.

Card readers compatibility varies also based on who makes them.

SansDisk is pretty good at making Mac compatible card readers and so are many multifunction printers able to do card reading.

You might want to check with SansDisk if there is a particular model known to work with 10.11 or if there is a firmware update to enable it.

It is broken now.

I assume that somewhere in the OS there is the drivercapability to read SD media since quite a few Mac computers that Apple is selling today, Minis, iMacs, laptops ship with a SD slot.

I guess I should consider myself lucky since at least two of my media card readers can still read CF cards with 10.11.1 while you dont have that ability with your present readers.

I dont even think you can install any flavor of OS X on a HDD formatted NTFS.

That said, it would be very weird if the NTFS drivers were the reason that 10.8.5 can read SD cards while 10.11.1 cant.

I will edit that profile so it doesnt cause confusion in the future.

I dont know if there are any firmware updates for any media card readers.

When I did a search for any drivers for either of my card readers I found another discussion article that someone this past April was able to use a Digital Concepts 6 SLOTS HI SPEED 51-IN-1 CARD READERWRITER to read his SD card so while author of the article didnt mention the OS version he was using, back in April 2015 I doubt that he was using 10.11 and if he was then it was a beta.

I dont think merits a call to Ghost Busters about this but do you know where this bad behavior canshould be reported to Apple TIA.

I have a few more to submit now that I know where to go when the discussion community doesnt have the answers I seek.

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