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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.

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