[missing-sync-palmos-talk] mounting a disk via MS or via a card reader

[Jason Davies]

I've been working with the files on my memory card direct by mounting
through MS but got fed up with fiddling around to activate MS and
wondered if a reader would be quicker (using the iTunes plugin is
tortuously slow in my experience, for example, and effectively kills
iTunes for several minutes). 

But the card seems to get corrupted in the reader, data getting lost and
so on. Is Missing Sync doing something special here? I refromatted the
card in the Palm and replaced the files, then some of them got corrupted
again. I'd apprectiae knowing (roughly) how MS does it, in case I have a
faulty card reader that I should return (ie are they equals or is this
predictable?)

thanks