Card Reader adding extra drives

belveder · 03-19-2008, 09:30 AM

I just put a Scythe Karma Panel (multi card reader) in my computer and noticed that it has put a ton of extra drives in. My question is, are these drives necessary? If not how do I get rid of them. If they are necessary can I hide them? If I do hide them will it interfere with the performance of the card reader when I want to use it Any help appreciated

**casecutter** · 03-19-2008, 10:59 AM

Card readers generally add 4+ drives when you install them. You can possibly disable them, so they won't show up but they obviously won't work.

PrairieDawg · 03-19-2008, 01:06 PM

...what casecutter said ^^^^. Might I ask why the extra drives disturb you?

belveder · 03-19-2008, 02:22 PM

just out of curiosity, having never had a card reader before it caught me out, thanks for the help

PrairieDawg · 03-19-2008, 09:23 PM

Ahh.... o.k. I was afraid that you might have a deep seated fear of the letters "H", "I", "J" and "K". LOL

DigitalDD · 04-10-2008, 11:21 PM

There are a few card readers which only add one drive letter even though they support multiple cards you can only read/write from a single type at a time though. Someone gave me a generic one of these which is OEM and has no branding on it.