memory card multi reader USB

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I have one of these multi card readers in a 3.5" bay and connected
directly to the motherboard (ASUS P4PE) via internal USB header:
http://www.opti-ups.com/UCR54IN1B.htm

It shows up in Windows XP (SP2 Home) as four separate drives (F, G, H,
I) even when there are no memory cards in the reader. If I insert a
card into one of the four slots (SD slot) then the "drive" (H) mounts
the "volume" that is the SD card.

The problem is when I do a "safely remove", it removes ALL of the the
"drives" and it will not see any cards that are inserted after that
until the next reboot.

This happens regardless of which method of "safely remove" I use -
the single left click, or the right-click method which gives you more
options.

I've tried doing the right-click "safely remove" where it gives you
the option of selecting just the one drive (or volume in that drive -
I've tried it both ways) that you want to "stop", but the result is
the same. All the "drives" (F, G, H, I) disappear and will not
reappear until reboot. So you cannot use the reader again after doing
a "safely remove" until the next reboot.

Is there a better way to use this? (Also, it would be nice to not have
the 4 drives (F, G, H, I) showing up all the time even when no cards
are in the reader.)
 
Re: memory card multi reader USB

What happens if you right click on the drive and select "eject"?
Louis

"toronado455" <toronado455@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:644f282c-62f3-4a95-87da-561a2a7c9d89@x16g2000prn.googlegroups.com...
> I have one of these multi card readers in a 3.5" bay and connected
> directly to the motherboard (ASUS P4PE) via internal USB header:
> http://www.opti-ups.com/UCR54IN1B.htm
>
> It shows up in Windows XP (SP2 Home) as four separate drives (F, G, H,
> I) even when there are no memory cards in the reader. If I insert a
> card into one of the four slots (SD slot) then the "drive" (H) mounts
> the "volume" that is the SD card.
>
> The problem is when I do a "safely remove", it removes ALL of the the
> "drives" and it will not see any cards that are inserted after that
> until the next reboot.
>
> This happens regardless of which method of "safely remove" I use -
> the single left click, or the right-click method which gives you more
> options.
>
> I've tried doing the right-click "safely remove" where it gives you
> the option of selecting just the one drive (or volume in that drive -
> I've tried it both ways) that you want to "stop", but the result is
> the same. All the "drives" (F, G, H, I) disappear and will not
> reappear until reboot. So you cannot use the reader again after doing
> a "safely remove" until the next reboot.
>
> Is there a better way to use this? (Also, it would be nice to not have
> the 4 drives (F, G, H, I) showing up all the time even when no cards
> are in the reader.)
 
Re: memory card multi reader USB

toronado455 wrote:
> I have one of these multi card readers in a 3.5" bay and connected
> directly to the motherboard (ASUS P4PE) via internal USB header:
> http://www.opti-ups.com/UCR54IN1B.htm
>
> It shows up in Windows XP (SP2 Home) as four separate drives (F, G, H,
> I) even when there are no memory cards in the reader. If I insert a
> card into one of the four slots (SD slot) then the "drive" (H) mounts
> the "volume" that is the SD card.
>
> The problem is when I do a "safely remove", it removes ALL of the the
> "drives" and it will not see any cards that are inserted after that
> until the next reboot.
>
> This happens regardless of which method of "safely remove" I use -
> the single left click, or the right-click method which gives you more
> options.
>
> I've tried doing the right-click "safely remove" where it gives you
> the option of selecting just the one drive (or volume in that drive -
> I've tried it both ways) that you want to "stop", but the result is
> the same. All the "drives" (F, G, H, I) disappear and will not
> reappear until reboot. So you cannot use the reader again after doing
> a "safely remove" until the next reboot.
>
> Is there a better way to use this? (Also, it would be nice to not have
> the 4 drives (F, G, H, I) showing up all the time even when no cards
> are in the reader.)

I have a similar device, although mine's external and connects to any
available USB port. The problem is that it is the *device* itself that
is being stopped, rather than the individual "drives." Mine, of course,
can be used again just be physically unplugging it and re-connecting it.

Try this:

Right click on the USB drive icon in My Computer.
Select the Hardware tab.
Select your USB drive and click on Properties (make *sure* that you pick
the correct entry; *all* of your drives show up here).
Now click on Policies tab.
Select the radio button to "optimize for quick removal."

Now you can ignore the "safe to remove hardware" business. Just unplug
the card after you close whatever application you used to read/write to it.


Lem -- MS-MVP

To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm
 
Re: memory card multi reader USB


"toronado455" <toronado455@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:644f282c-62f3-4a95-87da-561a2a7c9d89@x16g2000prn.googlegroups.com...
>I have one of these multi card readers in a 3.5" bay and connected
> directly to the motherboard (ASUS P4PE) via internal USB header:
> http://www.opti-ups.com/UCR54IN1B.htm
>
> It shows up in Windows XP (SP2 Home) as four separate drives (F, G, H,
> I) even when there are no memory cards in the reader. If I insert a
> card into one of the four slots (SD slot) then the "drive" (H) mounts
> the "volume" that is the SD card.
>
> The problem is when I do a "safely remove", it removes ALL of the the
> "drives" and it will not see any cards that are inserted after that
> until the next reboot.
>
> This happens regardless of which method of "safely remove" I use -
> the single left click, or the right-click method which gives you more
> options.
>
> I've tried doing the right-click "safely remove" where it gives you
> the option of selecting just the one drive (or volume in that drive -
> I've tried it both ways) that you want to "stop", but the result is
> the same. All the "drives" (F, G, H, I) disappear and will not
> reappear until reboot. So you cannot use the reader again after doing
> a "safely remove" until the next reboot.
>
> Is there a better way to use this? (Also, it would be nice to not have
> the 4 drives (F, G, H, I) showing up all the time even when no cards
> are in the reader.)
You should not remove the drives. Instead, you eject the media. Another
poster has told you how to eject media.
Jim
 
Re: memory card multi reader USB

On Aug 20, 2:51 pm, Lem <lemp40@unknownhost> wrote:
> toronado455wrote:
> > I have one of these multi card readers in a 3.5" bay and connected
> > directly to the motherboard (ASUS P4PE) via internal USB header:
> >http://www.opti-ups.com/UCR54IN1B.htm
>
> > It shows up in Windows XP (SP2 Home) as four separate drives (F, G, H,
> > I) even when there are no memory cards in the reader. If I insert a
> > card into one of the four slots (SD slot) then the "drive" (H) mounts
> > the "volume" that is the SD card.
>
> > The problem is when I do a "safely remove", it removes ALL of the the
> > "drives" and it will not see any cards that are inserted after that
> > until the next reboot.
>
> > This happens regardless of which method of "safely remove" I use  -
> > the single left click, or the right-click method which gives you more
> > options.
>
> > I've tried doing the right-click "safely remove" where it gives you
> > the option of selecting just the one drive (or volume in that drive -
> > I've tried it both ways) that you want to "stop", but the result is
> > the same. All the "drives" (F, G, H, I) disappear and will not
> > reappear until reboot. So you cannot use the reader again after doing
> > a "safely remove" until the next reboot.
>
> > Is there a better way to use this? (Also, it would be nice to not have
> > the 4 drives (F, G, H, I) showing up all the time even when no cards
> > are in the reader.)
>
> I have a similar device, although mine's external and connects to any
> available USB port.  The problem is that it is the *device* itself that
> is being stopped, rather than the individual "drives."  Mine, of course,
> can be used again just be physically unplugging it and re-connecting it.
>
> Try this:
>
> Right click on the USB drive icon in My Computer.
> Select the Hardware tab.
> Select your USB drive and click on Properties (make *sure* that you pick
> the correct entry; *all* of your drives show up here).
> Now click on Policies tab.
> Select the radio button to "optimize for quick removal."
>
> Now you can ignore the "safe to remove hardware" business.  Just unplug
> the card after you close whatever application you used to read/write to it.
>
> Lem -- MS-MVP
>
> To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computerhttp://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm


Thanks. My replies aren't showing up... I think I must have hit "reply
to author" by mistake.

The Policies were already set to "optimize for quick removal". So does
that mean I can just pull out a memory card without having to "safely
remove" first? Should I "eject" first, or just pull it out?
 
Re: memory card multi reader USB

toronado455 wrote:
> I've tried doing the right-click "safely remove" where it gives you
> the option of selecting just the one drive (or volume in that drive -
> I've tried it both ways) that you want to "stop", but the result is
> the same. All the "drives" (F, G, H, I) disappear and will not
> reappear until reboot. So you cannot use the reader again after doing
> a "safely remove" until the next reboot.
>
> Is there a better way to use this? (Also, it would be nice to not have
> the 4 drives (F, G, H, I) showing up all the time even when no cards
> are in the reader.)


'Eject' is the right choice here. This is rejected when
the drive is still opened by a software.

If you are sure that you will never need the other
slots then you can remove their drive letters, either
in the Windows Disk Management (Start -> Run, enter
diskmgmt.msc) or on the command prompt like this:

mountvol F: /d

If you want to act the slots like USB flash drives
(drive letter assigned only when a card is put in)
then you need a 3rd party software as my USBDLM
(USB drive letter manager).
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html


Uwe
 
Re: memory card multi reader USB

On Aug 21, 12:14 am, Uwe Sieber <m...@uwe-sieber.de> wrote:
> toronado455 wrote:
> > I've tried doing the right-click "safely remove" where it gives you
> > the option of selecting just the one drive (or volume in that drive -
> > I've tried it both ways) that you want to "stop", but the result is
> > the same. All the "drives" (F, G, H, I) disappear and will not
> > reappear until reboot. So you cannot use the reader again after doing
> > a "safely remove" until the next reboot.
>
> > Is there a better way to use this? (Also, it would be nice to not have
> > the 4 drives (F, G, H, I) showing up all the time even when no cards
> > are in the reader.)
>
> 'Eject' is the right choice here. This is rejected when
> the drive is still opened by a software.
>
> If you are sure that you will never need the other
> slots then you can remove their drive letters, either
> in the Windows Disk Management (Start -> Run, enter
> diskmgmt.msc) or on the command prompt like this:
>
> mountvol F: /d
>
> If you want to act the slots like USB flash drives
> (drive letter assigned only when a card is put in)
> then you need a 3rd party software as my USBDLM
> (USB drive letter manager).http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html
>
> Uwe

Awesome. "Eject" works on the SD card slot. And I used diskmgmt.msc to
disable all except for the SD card slot drive "H". So no more F, G, H,
I, only H. Much better.

I noticed that you can also access the disable/enable USB drives
settings from the "safely remove hardware" window (right click on tray
icon).
 


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