Removable drives appear at startup

[jaclaz]

and should SIW do not give the info, maybe SIV:

http://siv.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/

will.

I re-checked, and the Uwe Sieber app has provisions for your situation:

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

card readers

The typical 20-in-1 card reader eats one drive letter for each of its slots - if we have a card for or not. USBDLM can remove the reader's drive letter until a media is inserted. This does not work under Windows 2000.

[settings]

NoMediaNoLetter=1

USBDLM assings then a drive letter as configured. If you need different drive letters for a multislot cardreader, then use the criterion 'DeviceType' in a DriveLetters section (MSCR is short for MultiSlotCardReaders which can be used too):

[DriveLetters1]

DeviceType=MSCR

Letter1=R

Letter2=W

Letter3=

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