USBDLM Assigning Card Reader Drive Letters?

[ihaveaproblem]

Does anyone have experience with this?

It seems like it should be easy to do... however i've spent a good amount of time on it now and reading through the help file provided with no success.

 

Simply, i want the intergrated card reader that reads sd,xd and more to be assigned to drive U: for example

 

What do i put in the ini configuartion for this to work?

My usb drives map perfectly to the assigned letters in the .ini, I just cant get the card reader to map to a set letter.

 

I'm sure this must be simple and i'm being daft..if anyone can help please!

 

thanks very much.

[andy_b]

Just had a quick go as not set specific letters for card readers, used:

 

[DriveLetters10]

DeviceType=MSCR

Letters=W,X,Y,Z

 

and this seemed to work.

 

I have the settings in the registry - but they should be exactly the same.

 

Are you restarting the USBDLM service each time you are editing the settings?

[ihaveaproblem]

Thanks Andy,

 

Thats the same as i've been trying

 

[DriveLetters10]

DeviceType=MSCR

Letters=G,H

 

I restart the service and insert the card, but it gets mapped as F:

This is on a laptop, not that it should make any difference.

[Bezwick]

her is our complete file, you should be able to modify it to what you need from this

Hope it helps

 

****************************Start File********************************

 

; This is a sample for an USBDLM.INI

; Create a new USBDLM.INI or rename it to USBDLM.INI

 

; More informations in the help file USBDLM_ENG.CHM

 

 

 

;------------------------------ Settings -------------------------------------

[settings]

 

;here you can let USBDLM remove driveletters of cardreaders as long

;as there is no media present

NoMediaNoLetter=1

 

;here you can let USBDLM write a logfile, default is _USBDLM.LOG in the

root of the Windows drive

WriteLogFile=0

LogFile=

LogLevel=3

 

 

;---------------------------- BalloonTips -------------------------------------

[balloonTips]

 

;this activates balloon tips and sets their show duration in milliseconds

Enabled=0

Timeout=6000

 

 

 

;-------------------------- the drive letters ---------------------------------

 

;here you can define new default drive letter for USB drives

[DriveLetters]

Letter1=U

Letter2=V

Letter3=W

 

 

;here you can define drive letter that shall never be used for new drive

;configure here your network and subst drive but _no_ local drives!

[ExcludedLetters]

Letter2=D

Letter3=E

 

;many other options are documented in the Help files

 

 

*************************End File************************

[andy_b]

Ok, i'll read the question better next time.... the integrated reader won't work with this method.

 

Instead of using DeviceType you need to use DeviceId

 

Run ListUsbDrives_To_Notepad.cmd and find the Drive DevID and use that to populate the DeviceID settings, e.g.

 

[DriveLetters10]

DeviceID=SD\\VID_27&OID_5048

Letters=W,X,Y,Z

 

That should work

[Bezwick]

Oh and not pointed out the program is very flakey if used in Vista or Windows 7 so i would recommend you only use it for XP.

[ihaveaproblem]

Ok, i'll read the question better next time.... the integrated reader won't work with this method.

 

Instead of using DeviceType you need to use DeviceId

 

Run ListUsbDrives_To_Notepad.cmd and find the Drive DevID and use that to populate the DeviceID settings, e.g.

 

[DriveLetters10]

DeviceID=SD\\VID_27&OID_5048

Letters=W,X,Y,Z

 

That should work

 

Andy, apologies, which is the ID i need..?

Here's my details

 

MountPoint = F:\

Volume Label = ---

Volume Size = 131 MB (FAT, 16K clusters)

Volume Serial = 0000-0000

Partition Type = SuperFloppy

Volume Name = \\?\Volume{0d686302-4fc4-11e0-a14a-6431506ca285}\

Partition Name = \Device\Harddisk1\Partition1

Bus Type = Unknown

Drive Type = fixed

Device Types = CardReader

NoMediaNoLetter = no (configure >= 2)

INI Sections = ---

Volume DevID = STORAGE\VOLUME\_??_RIXDPCI#DISK&VEN_RICOH&PROD_XDSTORAGE&REV_1.00#XD0001#{53F56307-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}

Drive DevID = RIXDPCI\DISK&VEN_RICOH&PROD_XDSTORAGE&REV_1.00\XD0001

Ctrl DevID = PCI\VEN_1180&DEV_E852&SUBSYS_146D103C&REV_01\4&14D4CE5E&0&02E2

Ctrl2 DevID = PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3B46&SUBSYS_146D103C&REV_05\3&16E9ADCA&0&E2

Host Ctrl Name = Ricoh PCIe xD-Picture Card Controller

Volume DosDevName = \Device\HarddiskVolume8

Disk DosDevNames = \Device\Harddisk1\DR6, \Device\00000098

Hotplug Device = yes

Hotplug Media = no

Removable Media = yes

Partition Number = 1 of 1

Friendly Name = Ricoh xD-Picture Card Disk Device

 

 

Beywick, thanks for the help to. What problems are you experiencing? I use windows 7 and so far i've not came across any problems with the program being flakey

[andy_b]

RIXDPCI\DISK&VEN_RICOH

 

Should be enough.

[ihaveaproblem]

thanks andy, not had time today to try this yet. As soon as i get chance i will, thanks again.