Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 13:20:44 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, terry@lambert.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hosokawa@jp.freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pccard and -current; a long way to go. :-( Message-ID: <199707290350.NAA10045@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199707282118.OAA01658@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jul 28, 97 02:18:29 pm"
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Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > 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. "Please insert the card 'XXXXX' as it is needed for a critical system function" 8) Of course, that's not as simple as it sounds. > o Mounted hard drives located in the dock, in the case > where the machine is about to be undocked. Yipe. In most cases you won't get the APM/SMI event until _after_ it's been undocked. Talk about bogus design. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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