Firewire Card Reader doesn't stay mounted

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Oreb

I installed a PCI firewire card and it works fine. But the
CF card reader I use with it isn't behaving the way
readers did with USB2. Maybe I'm stuck with that but I
thought I'd ask here to see if there's a fix.

Here's the background. I have fifteen drive designations
on this machine. When I connect to an external network, I
have another three and they require specific drive letters.

My CF card reader has always been drive (K) and, with USB,
it appeared in the list of drives on my system even when
there wasn't a card in the reader. I was able to use right
click/eject to remove cards and Win2K was happy.

With the FW reader, using right click/eject results in a
windows warning about unsafe removing of device. The only
way I'm able to remove my cards is to unmount the reader
(I use the systray icon). After the card's out, Win2K no
longer "sees" my (K) drive.

I think I can reserve the drive letter so that, when I add
more external hard drives, I'll still have (K) for my
reader.

But!! Here - finally (I know - sorry) - is what I'm hoping
I can tweak the system into doing. I'd like to be able to
use the reader, then use right click/eject to remove the
card (without the warning); and I'd like Windows to still
recognize my (K) reader drive even with no card in it. Is
that do-able or am I stuck with my work around?

My work around is to leave a small "dummy" CF in the drive
at all times and, when I need to really use the reader,
unmount it, remove the dummy card, insert my "live" card
(s), download, unmount and, finally, put the dummy back
in. It's cumbersome but at least my drive stays visible.

Sorry to be so verbose but I've tried asking the computer
company (Dell) and the PCI card company (Adaptec) and it's
getting pretty frustrating. Adaptec did say it's an OS
issue so... here I am.

Thanks more than a lot for any help.

O.
 
Bump!

Doesn't anyone here use a firewire card reader
(successfully) with Windows 2000?

Thanks for any help.

O.
 
AFAIK unability to "reserve" driver letter in win2k is kind of driver issue.
You need to fix the driver, what you can not do. so live with it.

-- PA
 
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