1. RE: cardreaderprob.
a.tammer at hetnet.nl wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> can someone help me please, I've got a Cresta-Flashcardreader,
> but my WinMe keeps seeing it as a removable disk. Tried all
> obvious things, re-installing, but nothing works. Maybe wrong driver,
> got no other than neodio.sys
>
> antoine
>
>
>
hi antoine
i'm curious about those readers. as i enjoy using removable media over
fixed media. i currently have hot swap hard drive bays installed.
how did you plan to use it, that its removable capablity is interfering?
i have not used them but i have seen removable media mangager programs
that should help.
a future project i am thinking of is a 'juke box' like storage bay that
holds such solid state cartridges.
rudy
rltoews at ilos.net
lotterywars
2. RE: cardreaderprob.
a.tammer at hetnet.nl wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> can someone help me please, I've got a Cresta-Flashcardreader,
> but my WinMe keeps seeing it as a removable disk. Tried all
> obvious things, re-installing, but nothing works. Maybe wrong driver,
> got no other than neodio.sys
>
> antoine
>
>
>
as i logged off and shutdown ,i remembered a program i had used.
before i get your answer i am assuming it is the way drive letters are
assigned and changing the cd rom letter. or maybe changing your
partition letters.
a program called LetterAssigner is available to 'reletter' your drives
so they are in a predictable sequence after each bootup.
the original version 1 is free but if i remember there is version 2.
rudy
rltoews at ilos.net
lotterywars
3. RE: cardreaderprob.
- Posted by a.tammer at hetnet.nl
Jun 14, 2002
Hi Rudy,
I plan to use it for demonstration-purposes,
with clients, for whom I'm designing webpages.
It's smaller than a CDR, you can erase and
re-record. I have a 256Mb-card (Sandisk) with
it, so there's lots of space, for taking people's
pictures, or their office's look, if they want that
on their home-page.
Problem is not in drive-letter-assignment. I can find
no interrrupt-conflicts, none of the standard
trouble-shooting techniques seems to do any good.
I'm half-sleepy, while answering this, so maybe not
everything makes sense. I do nevertheless send it
and hope someone can come up with a solution.
Hope you have the information you want.
a@t, antoine
4. RE: cardreaderprob.
a.tammer at hetnet.nl wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> can someone help me please, I've got a Cresta-Flashcardreader,
> but my WinMe keeps seeing it as a removable disk. Tried all
> obvious things, re-installing, but nothing works. Maybe wrong driver,
> got no other than neodio.sys
>
antoine:
I don't understand your problem, isn't a flash card reader's
media removable so therefore it is a removeable device
just like a floppy, zip-disk, jaz-drive, cdrom, etc.
So why shouldn't your system see it as a removable disk ?
Bernie
5. RE: cardreaderprob.
a.tammer at hetnet.nl wrote:
> Hi Rudy,
>
> I plan to use it for demonstration-purposes,
> with clients, for whom I'm designing webpages.
> It's smaller than a CDR, you can erase and
> re-record. I have a 256Mb-card (Sandisk) with
> it, so there's lots of space, for taking people's
> pictures, or their office's look, if they want that
> on their home-page.
>
> Problem is not in drive-letter-assignment. I can find
> no interrrupt-conflicts, none of the standard
> trouble-shooting techniques seems to do any good.
>
> I'm half-sleepy, while answering this, so maybe not
> everything makes sense. I do nevertheless send it
> and hope someone can come up with a solution.
>
> Hope you have the information you want.
>
> a@t, antoine
>
>
>
hmm. you want to take the 'reader' with you but feel it would also show
up as a 'drive' letter but different than what you programmed your
demonstration for?
did you believe it would show up in your memory address space?
and you want to try to access it directly now?
years ago, on an old s100 system (pre ibm pc) a company created a memory
card that would respond as a regular drive on the system.
it did not show up in regular memory 'space' , but in the i/o address
space. it used 2 port addresses (bi-directional ports) whose functions
were for :
input - 1 port for receiving data, 1 for the receiving a status
output - 1 port for sending data, 1 for sending commands
you would send a write command setting a destination address then send a
data to that address. to read any data you first sent an address command
to set an address followed by a read data command so that the data on
the data port was from that address.
maybe your interface is designed to be i/o using only a few bytes of
memory (memory mapped) instead of actual taking up system address space.
or using actual i/o port addresses.
without any product infront of me i can only guess what you are
experiencing.
later
rudy
rltoews at ilos.net
lotterywars
