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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
the card reader i bought had a list of about 50 different formats it could read, smartmedia was supposed to be one of them, it has the correct size slot and the led for that slot lights up when i insert the card, but it doesn't go any farther than that... very annoying, since it seemed more interesting to have one reader for all formats than to buy (potentially) several different ones for individual formats (not that i have very many different cards to read, at the moment anyway... it does work with my camera's sony memory stick at least, so i guess it's not a total loss. although i usually just connect the camera directly via usb.).
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Which card reader do you have?
I got a cheap (about $20) "21 in 1" USB 2.0 card reader from a local Korean PC clone shop. It has slots for Secure Digital, Compact Flash, Memory Stick, and Multi-Media Cards. (Smart Media cards have the same form factor as Secure Digital cards, and are read in the SD slot.) I already had a Dazzle CF card reader (for my digital camera and old Handspring PDA with a CF card adapter), and a SanDisk SD card reader. The "21 in 1" is less than the size of a pack of cigarettes and easy to carry around.
It works, but price matters. I've started to have problems reading SD cards in it, which are still handled fine by my SanDisk reader. It seems that cheap price=flimsy construction, and the SD slot is beginning to fail from wear.
I'd be curious whether an SD card would work in your multi-function reader, or whether you simply have a bad slot.
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Dennis