[ltp] Unplugging USB PCMCIA card

[James Mckenzie]

D. Sen:

Did you try to disconnect the external drive first before ejecting the card?
This may be the solution to your problem.

James McKenzie

D. Sen wrote:

> What is the correct procedure to unplug a USB PCMCIA (cardbus) device? 
> I get the card to work properly but when I attempt to 'cardctl eject 
> X', the machine hangs. I  have an Adaptec USB 2.0 device that I am 
> using to connect an external hard drive. The hard drive appears as a 
> SCSI device (usb-storage)....which I can mount, etc. When I am done 
> with the drive, I `umount the device`. Everything is fine so 
> far....but as soon as I type 'cardctl eject 0/1' as a safe way to 
> unplug the card...everything freezes.
>
> It has been a while since I had to use pcmcia cards (since network, 
> modems and wireless devices were integrated into the laptops). It 
> seems that everything is handled through `hotplug`....
>
> DS
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