Re: card reader

On 1/12/08 1:16 PM, "Chris Savage" <spam.goes.here@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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.


Huh? I am having trouble figuring out which questions or statements you are
responding to

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.

No. It gives you a desktop icon for each file system. If you have a storage
device that is partitioned into two or more partitions, each will show up
separately. Devices that don't have file systems don't show up there.

On the other hand, slots in a card reader are locked in to a naming
convention that is imposed by the OS, and that holds the first two for
floppy drives that no modern computer has.



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