rcx21000 posted on May 24 2003 said:
Please don't tell me to get a SMC reader, because I don't have enough money for one
The Windows SW is nerve-wrecking, so just do yourself a favor and buy one of the cheap card readers popping up everywhere as soon as you can, just for peace of mind. It's a lot faster and more reliable.
Talking about reliable, I tried
two hama 6-in-1 Pocket Readers (hama is a big distributor only, so I don't know the actual manufacturer), and both had problems with large files, like MP3s. I was wondering why my MP3s stopped after about 30s, and finally found out that the card reader was corrupting files over a few 100KB. Maybe that's what they meant with "some readers don't work with GP32"? It didn't work at all, that is :angry:
So, if you get a new card reader, plug it in and just copy a really large file on your SMC, copy it back on your PC and compare both files. If they're exactly the same, all is fine, if they are not, return it to the store and get another model.
That's what I did, finally, and after that I got the cool Coke-can-like reader (+2-port USB hub) from Lead Data. hama is selling this one as well under their own label, BTW, though I preferred to get the original Lead Data version after all the hassles I had with my first hama model (and it was cheaper anyway).