Kodak DC215 card drive suddenly gone!

Kodak's help files (online and off) do not answer my question. Maybe
someone here can help. My client has Drive E: for the memory
card...connected via a parallel port.

Well, after unsuccessfully trying to install software for a an Iomega
USB CD-RW drive, we now discover that the Kodak card drive no longer
exists!

Tried reinstalling the Kodak software, but still the drive is gone.
Anyone familiar with this problem? TIA.

In article <>,
says...
> Kodak's help files (online and off) do not answer my question. Maybe
> someone here can help. My client has Drive E: for the memory
> card...connected via a parallel port.
>
> Well, after unsuccessfully trying to install software for a an Iomega
> USB CD-RW drive, we now discover that the Kodak card drive no longer
> exists!
>
> Tried reinstalling the Kodak software, but still the drive is gone.
> Anyone familiar with this problem? TIA.
>
Did you actually plug the camera in again? Windows should re-assign a
drive letter. Though it may be a different letter this time.
--
John O.
There is no slack in light attack.

I think you must be referring to the serial port connection? If so, and the
client can afford/use a USB CD Writer, I HIGHLY recommend you get him a $30
USB Compact Flash Card Reader.

"Chief Thracian" <> wrote in message
news: om...
> Kodak's help files (online and off) do not answer my question. Maybe
> someone here can help. My client has Drive E: for the memory
> card...connected via a parallel port.
>
> Well, after unsuccessfully trying to install software for a an Iomega
> USB CD-RW drive, we now discover that the Kodak card drive no longer
> exists!
>
> Tried reinstalling the Kodak software, but still the drive is gone.
> Anyone familiar with this problem? TIA.

John O. <> wrote in message news:< om>...

> Did you actually plug the camera in again?

Of course. "Plugging the camera in" is only a matter of plugging in
the 4mb memory card that stores the photos.

> Windows should re-assign a
> drive letter. Though it may be a different letter this time.

That's what I thought, too. But no, Windoze did not. I even had him
disconnect the parallel port connection, and return it to the normal
state...then boot up again...then shut down again, and plug back in
the parallel connector...then boot up again.

It's as if the extra drive never existed...all gone! Reinstalling the
Kodak software didn't make any difference either.

I guess that no one here is familiar with the parallel-port
connection...which connection is NOT on Kodak's knowledge base (just
the serial and USB connectors).

"Shaw Goh \(NetPlus Micro Computers\)" <> wrote in message news:<3f1e5505$>...
> I think you must be referring to the serial port connection?

Okay, I tracked down the parallel connector...produced by "datafab":

http://www.datafabusa.com/parallel_p...ard_reader.htm

The model I'm talking about is the MDCFE-SR...of which you'll see a
piture.

It came with my client's Kodak DC215 camera.

Hopefully, I can now resolve the problem, via datafab. I think the
installation of his USB RW-CD screwed up some *.dll files, by
overwriting them with older ones. Hopefully, a fresh driver-install of
the datafab connection will restore the corrupted files.

Thanks for your help.

The DC215 camera has only serial line connections, you plug the camera in
(with the card in the camera) and it connects. The Kodak software will make
this happen.


I'll second the recommendation that you get a USB card reader, which is
similar in function to the parallel reader that you have but more reliable.
They're cheap. Otherwise, you're going to have to find the drivers for the
parallel port reader from wherever your client got the drivers for the
parallel port card reader that you have.


"Chief Thracian" <> wrote in message
news: om...
> "Shaw Goh \(NetPlus Micro Computers\)" <> wrote in
message news:<3f1e5505$>...
> > I think you must be referring to the serial port connection?
>
> Okay, I tracked down the parallel connector...produced by "datafab":
>
> http://www.datafabusa.com/parallel_p...ard_reader.htm
>
> The model I'm talking about is the MDCFE-SR...of which you'll see a
> piture.
>
> It came with my client's Kodak DC215 camera.
>
> Hopefully, I can now resolve the problem, via datafab. I think the
> installation of his USB RW-CD screwed up some *.dll files, by
> overwriting them with older ones. Hopefully, a fresh driver-install of
> the datafab connection will restore the corrupted files.
>
> Thanks for your help.

Hi Chief,

I can appreciate your experience, Chief, and want to help. Since you are
connecting through a parallel port, let me ask if you have any other devices
connected that way? Are you using a pass through cable? Have you tried
connecting using only the card reader and no other devices? I would try
uninstalling all the related software, then reinstalling. Make sure that
after uninstalling, you reinstall without the devices being connected. Once
you have the Iomega software/drivers installed, try installing the software
for the card reader. If that is all the devices that are installed, then
the drivers are available on the Kodak website.

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/servi...ml?dlnlanguage
=english&operating_system=Windows%20XP

Download and install that driver to your system. Once it is installed,
check the driver by plugging in the card reader to see if it can find your
card reader.

Let me know if you are successful.

Talk to you soon.

Ron Baird
Kodak



"Chief Thracian" <> wrote in message
news: om...
> Kodak's help files (online and off) do not answer my question. Maybe
> someone here can help. My client has Drive E: for the memory
> card...connected via a parallel port.
>
> Well, after unsuccessfully trying to install software for a an Iomega
> USB CD-RW drive, we now discover that the Kodak card drive no longer
> exists!
>
> Tried reinstalling the Kodak software, but still the drive is gone.
> Anyone familiar with this problem? TIA.

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 07:54:28 -0400, "Bill Jackson"
<> wrote:

>The DC215 camera has only serial line connections,

Totally untrue. See:

http://www.datafabusa.com/parallel_p...ard_reader.htm

This includes a photo of the various connectors, with the page title:

Parallel Port Card Reader

For a CLOSE-UP of the particular model I am talking about, see;

http://www.datafabusa.com/productpage/mdcfe-sr.htm

No way, by any stretch of the imagination, could you call that a
"serial connection". It is a parallel port connection made
SPECIFICALLY for digital camera memory cards.

I'm afraid some folks are just too new to PC's, to know the
DIFFERENCE between a parallel connection, and a serial
connection. USB has been around long enough, for newer
PC users to not know about parallel ports. So, like you,
they INSIST that my reference to a parallel connection
MUST be incorrect.

Which only has the thread going in circles, spouting
misinformation which then is picked up by other new
computer users...who spread the PC-voodoo further.

Ho-hum. It's one thing to not get any help with a question...
another, for folks to PERSIST with ignorant statements,
believing they are the LAST WORD.

As it turns out, my client's Windoze98 system finally gave
back the "drive E:" which was missing for several days...
which drive is the one that connects the PARALLEL interface
with his digital camera's memory card. No rhyme, no reason;
it just decided to show up again.