Memory Card Explorer for the Elan P423

[Glen Slick]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 5:48 PM D. Resor <organlists1 at sonic.net> wrote:
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> Memory Card Explorer can Exclude/Include up to 1 through 8 PCI card slots.  This is to prevent the software from "killing" the operation of other plugged in cards such as modem, network card, etc.
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That doesn't make much sense that it would care about PCI slot
numbers. I found a Memory Card Explorer for RICOH XP DEMO screenshot
online which shows a dialog box for including or excluding PC Card
Slot 1 through Slot 8. I assume that is referring to the physical PC
Card slots into which you insert PC Cards, which is a completely
separate numbering space than the PCI slot into which the adapter card
is installed. Most likely you would only ever have one or two PC Card
slots, controlled by a single adapter card. I suppose you could get as
many as 8 PC Card slots if you had multiple adapters installed.

> The mother board I tried it on and was able to actually get the program to start under Windows XP with no memory hurdles is a Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H.  Unfortunately for some reason the PCI slot closest to the CPU socket is marked PCI Slot #12.  There weren't no way I could configure MCE to find the Elan P423 Card Reader/Writer.

Again, that doesn't make much sense to me that the adapter driver or
the software would care about which PCI slot that the adapter is
installed in.

> I don't have to buy the Ricoh Memory Card Explorer software as there is a full working 30 day trial version (which I have).  Not a problem.

Is the Demo version of Ricoh Memory Card Explorer software available
to download somewhere on the net? I might be curious to try installing
it some time to take a look, instead of just making guesses about how
some of it works.