Power Mac G5 does not read Photo Bank

I have an 80 GB Photo Bank produced by Smart Disk. It is a FAT32-formatted USB device with several folders of photographs on it after an overseas trip and I cannot establish stable connection with the device. Every time I begin to import photographs to Aperture my Mac drops connection and I can only import a small part of media files or nothing at all. The user's guide of the device says it is compatible with both Windows and Mac OS. I have not tried to import files from it in the past as it was purchased only recently.
iPhoto and Finder also lose connection to Photo Bank after a few seconds and cannot substitute Aperture for the purpose of image capture. System Profiler describes the device this way:
DCB201:
Capacity: 74,53 GB
Removable Media: Yes
Detachable Drive: Yes
BSD Name: disk1
Version: 2.23
Bus Power (mA): 500
Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: DCB
Mac OS 9 Drivers: No
Partition Map Type: MBR (Master Boot Record)
Product ID: 0x223a
Serial Number: 000111111111
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
Vendor ID: 0x0424
Volumes:
JENBANK:
Capacity: 74,53 GB
Available: 67,44 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: MS-DOS FAT32
BSD Name: disk1s1
Mount Point: /Volumes/JENBANK
(JENBANK is the name I gave the device with Disk Utility when I first attached it to the computer and before cards contents were copied to it in the field.)
If anybody could advise a workaround or maybe pointed to a driver that I should download I would be very grateful. I checked the manufacturer's site and could not find anything useful.

Hi Thomas,
I forgot to mention in the original post that Photo Bank has an internal battery and can be also connected to 110/230 V AC power. I have it powered from the wall socket.
By now I have managed to import some of the files into Aperture and some into iPhoto on a PowerBook; after that, I transfered them to the Power Mac. It is a long long process!

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