RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: floppy disk reader ?

Hi,

>
> In a message dated 4/24/2006 10:25:40 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> janders@... writes:
>
> Only big drawback is one cannot pull a CF card while hot.<<
> You mean while the computer is ON, or while the CF is
> actually in use? What
> happens, it "blows" or strange vapors emanate from them or what?
>
>

Not actually completely true. There are two types of CF readers. One uses
the USB port and the other is a direct plug-in into the IDE bus; usually as
Secondary Slave to the CDROM or DVD.

On my WIN-XP Pro system, I have it connected via USB from a combo drive that
is both a floppy and a bunch of CF type cards. The floppy is connected via
the normal cable and the USB hooks to the other devices. It all fits in a
standard 3.5" floppy form factor.

On the Linux PC104 hardware I have a CF card slot that is wired directly as
primary slave. On the Linux Fedora system my CF cards can be either through
a USB SmartDisk CF reader or through a special adaptor that connects to the
Secondary IDE as the slave device.

None of the IDE types can be hot-plugged. The system needs to find them on
booting up. The USB ones can be hot plugged although you may have to
configure windows so it knows that.

John Dammeyer