I have an Olympus 2000 digital camera. When I place the SmartMedia disk containing the exposed pictures in the 3 1/2 floppy drive I get three traffic signals, all on red, and the prompt, "No Flashpath has been detected in any drive." This happened as soon as we installed it, then later the lights turned green and everything worked, and now it's giving me these red lights again. Help?

-- Anne Easlick (aeaslick@voyager.net), July 05, 1999

Answers

I wish I could tell you what happened but all I can say is that it happened to me as well. And then one time I lost, yes lost all the images on the camera media before I was able to move them in to the computer. I am now very cautious using the adapter. Since the problem I have had about 6 successful transfers. If anyone can help us on this that would be good.

-- Chuck Berghane (cberghane1@home.com), July 06, 1999.

Hmm - Afraid I don't have much to offer, being no sort of Windows guru. Only comment about losing pictures would be to make sure that you're *copying* the pics, not *moving* them in Explorer. We've used a FlashPath here for literally hundreds of transfers w/o a problem. - Means nothing, of course, relative to your problem. (Famous tech support rejoinder: "Well, it isn't happening on *my* computer!")

-- Dave Etchells (detchells@imaging-resource.com), July 08, 1999.

Sounds like you may have an IRQ conflict. Try this:

Start/Settings/Control Panel/System Device Manager gives you a list of all of your devices. If you have an ! or X by any device, there is a conflict. Also try:

Device Manager/Computer/Properties

This gives you a list of which devices are using your IRQ settings.

Did you receive an instruction manual with your device? If you did, take a look to see if tells you to manually configure your I/O address.

Good luck!

-- Jody Kind (jody@3rdm.net), July 09, 1999.

I have experienced the same problem and after determining that the batteries in the flashpath were still good.. I ignored the "traffic lights", opened explorer and double clicked on the floppy drive. From there it was a simple matter to drag and drop the image files into a temp folder. At times however, I have had to insert the Flashpath into the drive a couple of times before it would work. The batteries don't seem to last too long, especially if you tend to leave it in the drive for any length of time.

-- A J Knowles (Captnaj@aol.com), July 15, 1999.