Unable to Read or Write to Smart Media Card

Unable to Read or Write to Smart Media Card
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Description
Your Smart Card is not properly recognized by the Operating System. You will be unable to read or write data from the card.
Solution

CAUTION: This article contains information about modifying the registry. For information on the system registry, see the article Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 256986 - Description of the Microsoft Windows Registry . Before you modify the registry, make sure to back it up and make sure that you understand how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. For information about how to back up, restore, and edit the registry, see Microsoft Knowledgebase Article: 322756 - How to back up/restore the registry in Windows XP .
Corruption of the CIS block information on the card can prevent it from being properly recognized by the Operating System. In order to gain access to a Smart Media card that has a corrupt CIS block, disable CIS block checking by adding the following registry value.

Click Start, Run.
Type regedit. Click OK.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\tifm21\Parameters
Click Edit, New, DWORD Value.
Type SMCISEnable. Right click on the SMCISEnable Dword and select Modify. Verify the value data is 0.
Close the registry editor.
Restart the notebook.
When you restart the computer, you will be able to access the Smart Card