From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 28 19:01:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA23949 for current-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 19:01:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA23901 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 19:00:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA09348; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 11:25:50 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707290155.LAA09348@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: pccard and -current; a long way to go. :-( In-Reply-To: <199707281748.KAA01355@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jul 28, 97 10:48:56 am" To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 11:25:49 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, nate@mt.sri.com, hosokawa@jp.freebsd.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] 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 Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > My "vision" for looks something like this : > > [ ... ] > > 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). Understood. Unfortunately, there's no way to lock cards in, so you have to assume that the card has gone already. Certainly "revoking" the driver(s) handling a card should include an "unload" operation. > > Yah, I know I should just get out and do it. Gimme something with > > PCCARDS in it that I can call "mine" 8) 8) 8) > > I thought you had a Multia? My Multia have to PCMCIA slots... No. I looked at several, but came to the conclusion that AUD$1000 for a working Multia system was too much money, and spent it on a P6 instead. > Terry Lambert -- ]] 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 [[