Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Portable Storage

Hi Jon, Jerry,

That's a good point! I haven't crashed any .DLL's, but Windoz 98
doesn't like it too much if you "just pull out the card" on an ATA
card. I am involved in writing PCMCIA drivers for a hand held computer
for automotive use, so I suffer this all the time. Best bet is to
"unmount" the "drive" each time, seems to help a little. I also save
open files before I yank the card. I still get "hangs" for the Windoz
exploder, and at that time, I dump the exploder, and then close out
everything and reboot. Other PCMCIA cards, Linear cards for example,
suffer less from this. I can generally work all day with them. I do
find them nice for working on a notebook computer! And I'm considering
getting a PCMCIA drive (or an IDE interfaced CF) for my "shop" machine.

Alan KM6VV


Jon Elson wrote:

>
> Alan Marconett KM6VV wrote:
>
> > Hi Jerry,
> >
> > Not a bad idea. You don't mention the URL, 'tho! I did find Click, but
> > didn't see a $22 price.
> >
> > I use Compact Flash (CF), and there are IDE adapters for them. CF's can
> > be used in an adapter in a PCMCIA slot.
>
> I hope this is not too far off topic. I have a digital camera that came with
> a SanDisk flash memory card and an IDE adaptor. Shortly after I got it, I
> tried pulling the SanDisk card out of the adaptor while the computer was
> running, and it destroyed about 16 .DLL files in my Windows system.
> I mostly recovered from backups, but it was a great big mess to get all
> my applications software working again. If yours suffers from the same
> limitation, this would make it a lot more cumbersome to carry CNC
> programs around with a flash card. You'd have to shut TWO systems down
> every time you moved the card.
>
> Jon