

Whether you find this assuring or not depends on whether you believe their previous explanation as to the long wait for OS X drivers. We are sorry for any inconvienience this has caused and should have a solution for you shortly." Our engineering team is working diligently to correct this problem.

We understand that they are now not functioning in the newly released 10.1.2 update. If this is too risky for you, Microtech will only say that "the Mac OS X drivers for your Microtech USB reader were designed and tested in the Mac OS 10.1.1 environment.
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Read the rest of the article for some more information on this problem and how to track Microtech's updates automatically. If you do go ahead, I highly suggest you keep the 10.1.2 version of the extension around. For some it appears to work, but others say it did nothing for them. His solution? Boot into Mac OS 9, copy the 10.1.1 version of the extension back into the appropriate directory, and reinstall the Microtech drivers. Evidently, the cause of the drivers' breakage was that the Mac OS 10.1.2 installer revises the IOUSBMassStorageClass.kext extension to a point where the drivers don't work. "Mike C., Certified Service Technician, macUpgrades" claims to have figured out a workaround.

People with Microtech ZiO card readers were overjoyed in early December to finally receive drivers that enabled these peripherals to work with Mac OS X, only to have their hopes dashed when, after installing the 10.1.2 update, the drivers promptly stopped working.
