Re: Adding and removing a pc card

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_usa.net)
Date: 07/26/04

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    On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 19:42:07 GMT, dhinds@sonic.net staggered into the
    Black Sun and said:
    > Dances With Crows <danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@usa.net> wrote:
    >> I have never needed to use cardctl with PCMCIA storage devices (CF
    >> and SmartMedia PCMCIA adapters) but I've had to use it with PCMCIA
    >> Ethernet cards. HTH,
    > That's interesting. It is definitely a bad idea to hot eject an IDE
    > storage device, but with most ethernet drivers, a hot eject should not
    > cause serious problems. Maybe you've been lucky.

    OK, what I've always done is this:

    (insert PCMCIA CF adapter)
    mount -t vfat /dev/hde1 /mnt/cf
    (copy data to/from /mnt/cf)
    umount /mnt/cf
    (wait for umount to return, push eject button on laptop)

    ...dmesg doesn't return any warnings or errors, and the system remains
    stable. I can see where problems might show up if I ejected the card
    before umounting it, of course. Well, doing "cardctl eject" after the
    umount won't take much time at all, so I'll do that. Thanks! 

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