PCMCIA card removal

  Can PCMCIA cards be inserted and removed with the power on?

 On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 13:00:09 -0600, "Peter Olcott"


Technically: yes.
But often the OS requires 'prior warning' to safely remove
hardware :-)

So: hotplug is supported, hot remove is sometimes allowed.

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Kind regards,
Gerard Bok

  Peter Olcott wrote:

http://www.pcmcia.org/pccard.htm

   "Sockets

    CardBus sockets must be able to accept and support all 16-bit
    PC Card within the constraints imposed by the host system (e.g.,
    5 volt only PC Card cannot be supported in any system which supplies
    only 3.3 volts. This is true for both CardBus and non-CardBus
    interfaces).

    The CardBus interface supports insertion and removal of cards
    while a system is powered-ON (i.e., Dynamic Reconfiguration). The
    socket must be powered-OFF when a card is not present. To the user,
    this appears as though the socket is "hot" during insertion and
    removal events."

I don't have a spec, but that suggests that perhaps when a PCMCIA
is plugged in, the power is not applied right away.

    Paul