card reader

Can anyone recommend a memory card reader that does not assign a different drive letter
to each slot in Windows. Novell with Windows makes it an impossible chore
to cope with.

greg

GregS wrote:
Can anyone recommend a memory card reader that does not assign a different drive letter
to each slot in Windows. Novell with Windows makes it an impossible chore
to cope with.

greg

I doubt if anyone can, but winxp is quite good about letting you assign
the drive letter.
I always have my cd stuff at the end out of the way, they are w,x and y.
For some strange reason, if you use zone alarm, you can assign drive z,
but it won't stick, on a re-boot you lose it.
Dave Cohen

(GregS) wrote:
Can anyone recommend a memory card reader that does not assign a different drive letter
to each slot in Windows.

You can easily de-activate those slots, that you don't need. Then only the
slot you keep active will be assigned a drive letter.

Control Panel - System - Hardware - Device Manager and then right-click
on the device to activate or deactivate.

jue

In article , GregS
wrote:

Can anyone recommend a memory card reader that does not assign a different
drive letter
to each slot in Windows. Novell with Windows makes it an impossible chore
to cope with.

Oh my God...people are still using Novell?

On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:39:55 +0000, GregS wrote:

Can anyone recommend a memory card reader that does not assign a
different drive letter to each slot in Windows. Novell with Windows
makes it an impossible chore to cope with.

greg

One with only a single slot.

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In article , Neil Ellwood wrote:
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:39:55 +0000, GregS wrote:

Can anyone recommend a memory card reader that does not assign a
different drive letter to each slot in Windows. Novell with Windows
makes it an impossible chore to cope with.

greg

One with only a single slot.


The crazy thing, I buy this new 2G card for work. It will not read in my printer
or my other computer. The 16 mb card does read. My printer with multiple slots
only shows up with one drive letter. The 2G card reads fine in two other systems.

greg

On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:39:55 GMT
(GregS) wrote:

Can anyone recommend a memory card reader that does not assign a
different drive letter to each slot in Windows. Novell with Windows
makes it an impossible chore to cope with.

Use an OS that doesn't impose the long-obsolete "drive letter"
notion on you. When I stick a memory card in a slot on my Linux
machine, it automatically appears in the filesystem and a file
browser opens showing its contents. The same thing happens
regardless of the slot even though each slot is a different
device to the OS. Windows forces you to be aware that each
slot is a distinct device. Unix knows that you don't care
about details like that. I don't use MacOS, but I imagine it
is similarly intelligent.

Why to Windows users put up with this crap?

Paul Allen

In article , Paul Allen
wrote:

Can anyone recommend a memory card reader that does not assign a
different drive letter to each slot in Windows. Novell with Windows
makes it an impossible chore to cope with.

Use an OS that doesn't impose the long-obsolete "drive letter"
notion on you. When I stick a memory card in a slot on my Linux
machine, it automatically appears in the filesystem and a file
browser opens showing its contents. The same thing happens
regardless of the slot even though each slot is a different
device to the OS. Windows forces you to be aware that each
slot is a distinct device. Unix knows that you don't care
about details like that. I don't use MacOS, but I imagine it
is similarly intelligent.

it is.

Why to Windows users put up with this crap?

good question.

In article , Paul Allen
wrote:

Why to Windows users put up with this crap?

Maybe they're too busy keeping their anti-virus and anti-spyware up to
date.

Paul Allen wrote:
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:39:55 GMT
(GregS) wrote:

Can anyone recommend a memory card reader that does not assign a
different drive letter to each slot in Windows. Novell with Windows
makes it an impossible chore to cope with.

What does Novell do? What's the problem? If I have drives that I want to
be a certain letter, I'll map them and that letter is reserved, for a
memory card I don't care.

Use an OS that doesn't impose the long-obsolete "drive letter"
notion on you.

Drive letters are a useful shorthand. I don't see the problem.

When I stick a memory card in a slot on my Linux
machine, it automatically appears in the filesystem and a file
browser opens showing its contents. The same thing happens
regardless of the slot even though each slot is a different
device to the OS. Windows forces you to be aware that each
slot is a distinct device. Unix knows that you don't care
about details like that. I don't use MacOS, but I imagine it
is similarly intelligent.

Why to Windows users put up with this crap?

Paul Allen