From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 28 14:22:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA03939 for current-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 14:22:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA03921 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 14:22:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA01658; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 14:18:29 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199707282118.OAA01658@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: pccard and -current; a long way to go. :-( To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 14:18:29 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, nate@mt.sri.com, hosokawa@jp.freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199707281850.MAA06433@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Jul 28, 97 12:50:47 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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.