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- Path: news.primenet.com!krishna
- From: Glenn Saunders <krishna@primenet.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: PCMCIA ethernet
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 00:42:01 -0700
- Organization: Primenet (602)395-1010
- Sender: root@primenet.com
- Message-ID: <4ev3k9$10e@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>
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- X-Posted-By: krishna@usr6.primenet.com
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- The mortal Kolbjxrn Barmen wrote:
- : 2.) the A1200 PCMCIA isnt quite up to the PCMCIA-II standard as it claimes,
- : cause when I insert the card, it mostly freezes the machine, even
- : without software running at all, on plain bootscreen. When I
- : withdraw it, the machine wakes up again. I use to play with this
- : until suddenly it doesnt freeze, so I can boot up.
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- Not all PCMCIA cards are hot swappable. Obviously a PCMCIA ram card is
- going to create a lockup if part of the RAM is in use when you pull it
- out. I don't know about this particular card, but don't just assume that
- because it's PCMCIA you can pull it and plug it back in with the power up.
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