Total Commander - Card Reader

[Tasiorsa]

Hey
I bought Card reader Chieftec CRD 501 (3,5'' USB). I have Win 7. In my computer I see letter only when i put card to card reader. For example If I put CF Card I see only K letter, If I put SD Card only L letter and it works for me correctly. I have little problem with TC. TC always show all letters K L M N . I would like to ask for patch/plugin which change this. I would like to see only this letter which card I use. Thanks for any advice

[silencer]

I don't have a card reader or windows 7 present at the moment. But maybe this little program can help you.

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html#config

(I use it because xp sometimes conflicts with the usb-stick and mapped network drive letters.)

[Tasiorsa]

It doesn't work...I still see all card reader letters in Total Commander...Any other advice?

[ghisler(Author)]

You can hide those which you never use by adding the line
allowed=CDEF\

to your wincmd.ini, where CDEF are the drives you want to see, and \ the network neighborhood. Unfortunately I couldn't find any function to quickly detect whether a medium is inserted or not. Checking this can take several seconds (or even minutes) with some USB devices like CD drives, and even cause the tray to be closed...

[Tasiorsa]

It's not possible to use function which detect that card is inserted built in windows 7?

[ghisler(Author)]

Is there such a function? I don't know of any. Please let me know the function name.

[HolgerK]

It doesn't work...I still see all card reader letters in Total Commander...Any other advice?

It works (tested with vista and win7)!

- Unzip "usbdlm.zip" (or "usbdlm_x64.zip" in case you are using a 64Bit OS) into a folder (e.g. "C:\Tools\USBDLM")

- rename "USBDLM_sample.ini" into "USBDLM.ini"

- run "_install.cmd"

Regards
Holger

[Tasiorsa]

@HolgerK It works It's my fault because I don't renaume "USBDLM_sample.ini" into "USBDLM.ini" Toppic to close

[silencer]

Great to hear!

This program helped me out a lot. It can do a lot more, but you need to read the helpfile for all options.

For example if you change the standard NoMediaNoLetter=1 to 2 even empty single slot cardreaders won't be visible.

[norfie²]

2ghisler(Author)

Is there such a function?

Maybe you could ask Sven. SpeedCommander has an option. Please look at this german blog.

[ghisler(Author)]

I have implemented my own in the meantime, using GetVolumeInformation. I just call it for drives of type DRIVE_REMOVABLE. I make it optional via ini switch, so it will not slow down systems with old slow hardware (e.g. zip drive or so).

[wicked007]

I know this thread is old but I just encoutered this problem!
All these drives from my cardreader are rather annoying and they dont even show up in the windows explorer...
So how do I activate this function to hide unused drives via the ini file?

Kind regards

[jvh]

2 wicked007

From Help 4.b. - INI-File settings: wincmd.ini
In Section [Configuration]
HideRemovableNoMedia=7

When !=0, removable drives like USB card readers will not be shown unless a medium is inserted. Note that CD-ROM drives and floppy disk drives will always be shown. Apply to:
1: Drive button bar
2: Drive dropdown list
4: Search function - Drives
7: All
This function may be very slow with certain drives, so turn it off if you notice any slowdown.