Re: card reader

On 2008-01-12, Paul Allen <paul.l.allen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:39:55 GMT
zekfrivo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (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 think that rather depends how you set up your automounter to handle
the devices. As far as the OS is concerned each slot is still a
different device because that's how USB presents them.

I don't use MacOS, but I imagine it
is similarly intelligent.
Neither do I. But I have and it isn't. It will give you a desktop icon
for each attached device and a finder window for each. And woe betide
you if you should try to remove a card without giving the Mac plenty of
warning.


Why to Windows users put up with this crap?

The majority for the same reason that Mac users put up with the things
that are crap about the Mac -- that's the way it comes out of the box
and they're too frightened / clueless to change things to a more
convenient / secure / efficient set up.

I have my XP laptop set to mount CF cards into the filesystem just where
I want them -- no drive letters involved. Similarly my external drive
mounts into my directory structure just where I want it, as does my
home directory on the Linux box in my garage.

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