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Summary: Great Product
Review: Worked very well. I have Windows XP and it detected it without need for the driver cd. Tried it out with an 32 MB Olympus SmartMedia and 128 MB Sandisk SD card. It writes a lot faster to SmartMedia Card. Could be that the SD card is just slow, as it also takes a really long time for my palm to write to it. Poor documentation, but you don't really need it.
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Summary: Don't even think about buying this!
Review: This is a piece of junk.The first time I inserted a smart media card, the card went all the way into the unit. To get it out, I had to call customer support who told me how to disassemble the unit so that I could extract it. Great start! It does not consistently read CF cards. Bottom line-stay away.
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Summary: Corrupted first disk I tried
Review: I tried this the first time with a brand new SD bought on vacation - could see pictures fine on camera but when used this Viking memory reader said disk and files corrupted. Was able to retrieve all but first five photos fortunately - unfortunately one of the five photos was a precious one that cannot be retrieved that was the main reason for the trip (daughter and father dancing).
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Summary: If you use SanDisk SD memory cards beware!!!!
Review: I bought the Viking Intelliflash 6-in-1 USB Flash Memory Reader with the hopes of being able to save battery life on a digital camera. However, on trying an SD memory card from a camcorder I have, it ruined the card and said "files corrupted" and I lost all the pics. I read some of the other reviews and realised the problem lied with the SanDisk memory card I used.
I later tried a Kingston Memory Card I had bought for the digital camera and it worked fine.
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Summary: Don't even think about buying this!
Review: This is a piece of junk. The first time I inserted a smart media card, the card went all the way into the unit. To get it out, I had to call customer support who told me how to disassemble the unit so that I could extract it. Great start! It does not consistently read CF cards. Bottom line-stay away.
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Summary: Corrupted first disk I tried
Review: I tried this the first time with a brand new SD bought on vacation - could see pictures fine on camera but when used this Viking memory reader said disk and files corrupted. Was able to retrieve all but first five photos fortunately - unfortunately one of the five photos was a precious one that cannot be retrieved that was the main reason for the trip (daughter and father dancing).
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Summary: Thank God for Amazon's great return policy
Review: I use several different types of cards for my camera and PDA, so I figured this would be a great thing to have. Installation is very easy, especially under Windows XP, where it it true Plug-and-Play. For other systems there is a CD with drivers included. What is supposed to happen is that when it installs is that it will maps an addition four drives onto your computer; one for each slot. Unfortunatly it does not seem to be able to map the Smart Media drive. Even after installing the drivers off of the disc it was not able to read the SM drive. I had two of these things; the first I exchanged for a new one after it failed to read anything. On the first one the slots weren't mounted to the face plate correctly, so when I put in the Smart Media card it fell into the back of the device and I had to spent five minuets shaking the thing out. The second one I got was mounted correctly, but unable to read the SM cards. While it could read the Secure Digital card, it erased everything on it. Fortunatly I only had a couple of files on it, but a lot of people use SD cards for storing programs or pictures, and they would have lost everything if they used this. The Compact Flash card was the only one that worked reliably, but even that one I had problems with since it was difficult to jam the card all of the way into the slot. I am very dissapointed with this device and with Viking, who usually makes good products. Most people don't use all six types of cards, so a lot of them would go to waste, so I would recomend just getting seperate readers for each card. It'll cost more, but probably worth it in the long run. On a side note, I would just like to say that Amazon.com has an excellent No-questions-asked return policy. After I asked to replace my first one they paided the return postage and sent me a new one two days later.
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Summary: Potential problems - you get what you pay for
Review: Very similar experience to that described by Jennifer Tomlinson Bohnenberger on May 5th. The Intelliflash reader installed fine on a WinXP machine; however, when the SanDisk 256MB SD card was inserted the files could not be read (corrupted!) When the card went back into the camera two of the photos had been reformatted and could not be read by the camera. Very disappointed in this reader, but then the price should have been a clue. Not worth it - stick with SanDisk or similar companies. Now let's see if Amazon will refund the purchase price. Update: Amazon.com did a refund, no questions asked. Great service.
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Summary: cheap & large
Review: I am running WinXP Pro. I plugged it in and right away I got the 4 mapped drives (one drive for each slot on the IntelliFlash). So off to a good start. Then I tried popping in a Canon Compact Flash I card. It would not go in. After some manuvering and jiggling, it went in, but the green light never went on next to the drive - and it wasn't being read.
I then tried to pop in a Viking CF card and had the same problem. After much jiggling and pushing the card in (with the Canon card because it was small and I didn't care as much if it broke) - finally the green light lit up and the pictures transferred very fast to my hard drive. So now I'm not sure if this is a faulty device - or if this is the nature of the beast for this particular product. I'm afraid if I need to continually do this, it will ruin the CF card.
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