Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 14:18:29 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: terry@lambert.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, nate@mt.sri.com, hosokawa@jp.freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pccard and -current; a long way to go. :-( Message-ID: <199707282118.OAA01658@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199707281850.MAA06433@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Jul 28, 97 12:50:47 pm
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> > Don't forget: > > > > - A "card services" utility to "preunload" cards; many cards are not > > happy with an unplug (the MS docuemnts and Intel documents go > > over this in great, gory detail). > > Yeah, but in reality Win95 'handles' most every card I've thrown at it > fine, although it whines alot. In any case, this is already done by the > Nomads (it's an X appliation). I was more worried about non-network PCMCIA cards. Examples might be on of: o Adaptec SCSI controller PCMCIA card and all attached SCSI devices. o Flash RAM card with mounted FS on it, with some FS data in cache and needing to be flushed. o Mounted hard drives located in the dock, in the case where the machine is about to be undocked. o Etc. The network cards aren't nearly as bad; most the the network code was born being tolerant of intermittent connections. Yeah, I'm paranoid. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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