Sony SZ - mysterious SD/MMC drive

Hi

After a clean install of Windows MCE on my SZ (which went smooth and works wonderfully now) I installed all drivers and utils I need and everthing is very ok so far. On thing wonders me though, there's a new drive called SD/MMC as a third removable media drive. The MSDUO drive is there and works (tested) and the exprss card reader is there and works (tested with Memory stick and SD card) but there seems to be no slot for that SD/MMC drive - both removable media drives fed with cards and both work but the SD/MMC always says there's no media in the drive. Any idea what that mysterious drive is?

 

SD/MMC cards should be put inside Memory Stick DUO adaptors in order to work... At least as far as I found out from my manual and my brother's mobile also is supplied with one of them....

 

The SD/MMC cards are larger than MSDUOs, how are they supposed to fit in that drive with an adaptor?

 

I have the same ghost drive after a reformat... I must admit I also found it kinda weird!

 

I deactivated it in the device manager and have not lost any funcitons or real drives. Not a real problem but I'm kinda curious to find out what that is. Never had a phantom device on any of my machines.

 

I have a UK model SZ1XP/C and the SD/MMC cards fit in a sort of 1/2 width PC card adaptor that fits in a slot on the right, just above the 2 USB ports.

 

Thats the express card reader and yes it eats SD cards. It does it on my SZ2 and the drive is shown as "removable media drive". BUT there's a third drive called "SD/MMC" and there's no way to use it since it does not read anything. Looks like a controller for an additional drive but not slot to use it.

 

hi. new to this forum...i did a clean install and sad to say i too have this bogus drive....i contacted sony support a couple times and they too cannot help me in this......any ideas how to fix this? the default icon on my MSDUO drive is not working as it is displaying a windows generic icon....

 

To get he MSDuo icon working, copy a dll into the windows folder. The name of that file is snymsico.dll - but I'd say you forgot to make a backup of that file. You surely can find it here in the forum, just do a search.

That bodus drive can be deaktivated in the device manager and won't bother you then. I find it kinda strange thought that Windows regocnizes a drive that is not there. Maybe it's a system component that is regocnized incorrectly and if so that should be corrected.

 

i'm actually wondering if our boards support that drive, and sony just disabled it or not used it...