Customer Reviews

GE JasHO97936 10-in-1 Card Reader/Writer

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this is a revision of my previous review -- just purchased 256MB memory stick pro with Magic Gate -- and this reader will NOT read it!

I have no experience with card readers, had a borrowed Olympus digital camera and needed to read the smart card in it. Bought this on a whim at Target for $25 and it worked fine from the first time I used it. My only problem was I kept getting notification it was using a slow USB connection. Found out that required a download for XP SP1 to rectify, so it had nothing to do with the reader. Have since gotten a Sony DSC-10 and this reader reads the Sony Memory Stick & Memory Stick Pro just fine -- and it's at full USB 2.0 specs, AFAIK. I can copy files, write to the stick (I've even used it to transfer regular computer files between computers), make directories on it, etc.
Based on my previous experience (none), this unit is flawless, maybe that means it's GREAT ??

I got this thing as a wedding gift. I attempted to use it after returning from my honeymoon. It completely corrupted the memory card and of the 80 pictures on the card, only 12 were readable. The camera then could no longer read them either. It's bad enough that it destroyed a $30 memory card, but it lost all of my honeymoon pictures which are irreplaceable. I've had some poor products before, but this one goes down as the worst of all time.

While the price of the 8 in 1 card reader is reasonable, consider this. This card reader has a nasty habit of rendering smart media card useless. Evidently, if you cut and paste or delete data on the SM card using thee 8 in 1 card reader, the reader rewrites the signature file so that it cannot be read by the camera. So that $24 card has the potential to cost you over $80.00. In addition, customer service is slow and I have had problems with the drivers.

I have no comparison basis, but this Card Reader/Writer works fine with my computer and all types of cards I have used in it.

GE does not actually manufacture Consumer Electronics (according to their website). The Consumer Electronics division is farmed out.

The GE Reader uses PHISON chipset. Updated drivers are available here [...]
The chipset in mine is the Pen Drive 1.0 Series PS1006(C) chipset.

The reader chassis is a snap together case. You can open it with your fingernails and check out the universal USB interface chipset.

I highly suggest using the NEW drivers for the PS1006 chip released 08-Sep-2004 version : v1.29r000 for Win98 (5.5 MB ZIP File)

Hope this helps? Had to research this after reinstalling Win98 and loosing my install CD. :)

This is a wonderful product for transferring images to the computer from a memory card! I cannot believe how simple it is! I'll never go back to connecting the camera to the computer again! GREAT PRODUCT!!!!

It reads and writes well, tried it with compact flash cards and memory stick, and both work without a hitch, but only if the connector at the back of the device can hang on to the cable. It may be a bad piece I got, may not be a problem with all of them but I'll let you decide. And you should be ok if you have 1 card to read/write. From day one, the connector was loose, so after you very carefully get 1 card in and read from it, when you try to remove the card to put in a second one the cable comes loose the moment you touch it, and the computer thinks you have ejected the hardware. Then it wont recognize the device again till you reboot(logout and login again doesnt work).

How much can you say about a simple card reader that is true plug-n-play with Mac OS X (10.3). A real bonus is that it uses the mini USB connector so that I need to carry only one cable for my Tungsten E and the card reader.

This should be the 8-in-1 card MISreader. Firstly, it was unable to correctly read .jpg files from an SD card, thereby rendering my viewer software incapable of opening the files. Secondly, despite two installations (with a complete uninstall between) of the device's driver according to the directions, the device consistently produced a "plug-in error" and was therefor unusable. GE, I like your products in general, but please recall this one.