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Rating:  - Works for me...
I have Win98SE and it installed w/o any issues at all and works fine with my CF, SM and MS (Memory Stick) cards. Boring huh? But unlike other USB products I've had, no problems at all is the exception, not the rule! I really like that it creates "drives" for each memory card type, so that you can copy from CF to Memory stick directly, for example. One thing that messes people up about installing a USB device is... Software First! That means install the software first, then reboot and THEN connect your new USB device. Perhaps you only have one memory type right now? Well, sooner or later you will want to access more than one. (Maybe your friend has pics on another type?) For 2x the price of a single format reader you can get all the popular formats in one device! Maybe you just bought a new digial camera and are saying "I don't need a reader at all, I can download direct from my camera." Well, that's OK, but it helps to waste battery life on your camera and the "free" software they give you tends to be of low quality too. I've had friends PCs go unstable after loading this type of software. This is not going to happen frequently perhaps, but why add software if you don't have to? Especially if that free software is limited in someway unless you buy the "full" version? Lots of free/low cost JPEG picture format software out there...
Rating: - works as advertised
i bought this unit because i currently own devices that use 3 different removable memory media and i didn't want a separate reader for each. even if you can hook a device directly to a pc, it's usually faster and easier to read and write to the memory cards through a device such as this.on a pc running Win2k Pro, i just plugged it into a free USB port and it recognized 4 removable disks- no additional drivers required.
Rating:  - Software incompatibility
So far have not been able to get this device to work with my Win98 system. It generates a blue screen "Fatal exception 0E" message whenever pluged into the USB port. Software installation procedure was followed per instructions. Have also tried latest driver download from Viking website. Viking tech support is unable to offer any reason for the "Fatal exception 0E" ... so it's fundamentally incompatible with my system.
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