MacBook Pro SD Card on Parallels 7

The difference is that old Macs had the SD card reader connected as a USB device, just one that was soldered on instead of shoved into a square plug. Around 2010, Apple instead connected the SD reader directly to the PCIe bus, which is a handy upgrade now that you can get cards faster than USB's ~20MB/s limit.

The downside is that the built in reader is no longer a USB device, so Parallels little trick of "unplugging" it from OS-X doesn't work anymore. To do the same thing on a newer model would require virtualizing the PCIe system, and finding some way to tell the host OS that an inconceivable PCIe unplug event occurred. There isn't even anything else worth virtualizing on the PCIe bus, so long as MS is carefully drafting their standard to make the GPU not virtualizable. This isn't an issue for the vast majority of Parallels users, and the manipulation necessary to work it in would certainly be a risk with the stability of the rest of the software.

It's a shame that the actual movie clip has been disappeared from the internet, I think this Cary Grant classic pretty much hits the point on the nose.

http://books.google.com/books?id=NU...lWJ9deACjTleP2OnS10&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

actually we have KB for this: http://kb.parallels.com/en/114560

 

Thanks a lot YanaYana for the post. It now works flawlessly with Build 9.0.24229 and thank you to rotopenguin for the valuable info on the speed limitations for SD card readers connected as a USB device on older Macbook pro's.

Man, it's always nice when things work. Thanks for the solution guys.