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- From: enger@arco7.cc.bbsrc.ac.uk (john enger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: PCMCIA ethernet
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 17:03:30 GMT
- Organization: BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
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- Kolbjxrn Barmen (kolla@nvg.unit.no) 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.
- : One of the points with the pcmcia is that we're supposed to be able to
- : insert and reject the card almost as we like, as I said this is not
- : the case with the I-Card and my amy.. Since we're 3 guys owning
- : each our card here, I've tested all three of them, all the same result.
- : The other 2 amigas also have the problems I describe but not to the same
- : amount as my poor daneel.
-
- I may be wrong, as it is 4 years since I read my 1200 manual type thing, but
- I distinctly remember it saying that you had to reset (reboot?) after
- inserting a PCMCIA card... quite why I remember this I don't know, but I also
- remember thinking at the time `but you're supposed to be able to put them in
- while the machine is still on'. Could this have something to do with it?
- I'll dig out the book when I get home... =)
-
- : Having said all this I also must say that when the card actually work,
- : it really is a pleasure to work with, transfers at 150k/sec and more
- : are far better than the 5 I had on my SLIP account.
-
- How much do these things cost these days? I'd find an I-Card really useful
- now, but I'm not going to pay 250 UKP for one! (The last price I saw) Now
- if I could get one for 99 UKP... :-)
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