Safely Remove Hardware icon for internal disk readers

Hi all,

I’m getting tired of seeing the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon in the system tray of Windows XP all the time due to the presence of the internal sandisk card reader that’s attached to the floppy drive. Is there a way to disable the cardreader or disable the drivers for that?

I know there’s the hide unused icons feature, but I only have two icons, and using that feature would make it evem more crowded.

Thanks in advance!