Dillema - Eject flash card without removing the reader?

[sanaka]

I put in a spiffy 4-in-1 (or 42-in-1 or whatever they say now) card reader into a spare 3.5" drive bay. It's a cool idea, except that there's that thing where you're supposed to click the icon in the tray to 'safely remove hardware' before yanking your CF card. If I do this, it removes the whole reader, i.e. USB mass storage device, and all the assigned drive letters are gone. I must reboot to recover them.

Well, this really defeats the purpose.

I found that with cards from my camera, I can just yank them and everything's fine. But I just got a new digital recorder, and if I just yank the card from the reader, the recorder can't find the files anymore (they're there, I can get them on the PC).

Is there any way the 'safely remove' just the CF card, and hae the reader with it's assigned drive letters remain? Thanks!

Peace,
Sanaka

 

[LTC8K6]

I just make sure the bus activity light is not flashing, and then I remove the card from the reader.

Never had a problem.

 

[LTC8K6]

You can look under device manager and make sure that under policies the drives are set for quick removal and not for performance.

 

[sanaka]

Thanks LT.

I did check this in disk manager and so I should be able to just pull the card without the 'remove safely' icon.

Like I said, this has also always worked for me with my camera, but my new recorder seems more finicky.

I did find that right clicking the drive in explorer and hitting 'eject' seems to do the job.

If I find anything else significant I'll post back here.

Peace,
Sanaka

 

[CrispyFried]

is "display device componants" checked?