Fuji FD-A2 Floppy Adapter Review

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Fuji FD-A2 Floppy Adapter
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Calder J Hughes.'s Review of Fuji FD-A2 Floppy Adapter

26th May 2000

Overall Rating

4.5 stars
  • Value for money
    4 stars
Good Points

Best thing is portability between a number of PCs. Also very small size - ideal for laptop bag.


Bad Points

Requires batteries (button cells)


General Comments

I looked around at card readers etc for my smartmedia cards - the cable supplied with the camera was really NOT an option as it took an age to transfer and required a free serial port.

My criteria were: the card reader had to be small enough to carry in my laptop bag, able to connect to any PC and able to read up to 64mb cards.

I settled for the Fuji FD-A2 floppy adapter and have certainly NOT regretted my choice. This thing is actually no bigger than a floppy and installs in seconds. The driver is supplied on a floppy disk, so I carry that with me aswell to use the adapter on any new PCs I meet.

To use the adapter, you just slot a smartmedia card into the side and then place the adapter in your A: drive as if it was a floppy. Your files are displayed in Explorer, just like with a floppy - a very large floppy in this case.

I have also found it possible to transfer large files via smartmedia cards - and so long as the files are deleted BEFORE replacing the card in your camera, all should be well. That saves me carrying a CD-R or ZIP drive.

The downside - it needs batteries - though Fuji state a 10 hour life and they only cost around £4.00 a set. A 32mb card transfers in about 3 minutes so thats around 200 transfers per set of batteries.

All in all, this is a fast and ultra portable device - a must for travelling digital photographers.

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Members' Comments onCalder J Hughes.'s Review

  • wallaby. on 11th Mar 2002

    Note that this device does not work with Windows XP.

  • princeton_dude. on 22nd Apr 2002

    Note that this works in WinXP. Download the XP/2000 driver here:
    http://home.fujifilm.com/products/digital/download/etc/Ver360_XP2k.exe

  • aakamene. on 13th Aug 2002

    it works only with cards up to 32MB. too bad i can't use it with 128MB card

  • Barbosa. on 24th Aug 2002

    What can I do do to upgrade to 64MB smartmedia?