PC Slot
Christopher Paradies (paradies@epfl.ch)
Mon, 2 Dec 1996 08:47:58 +0100
Dear Alan,
I was curious also, so I did it. The OGO120 gives you an error message
saying that
the card (in my case a MagicRAM 10Mb Flash) had been removed with active
programs. It gave me options to shut off the OGO and reinsert the card or
to continue. Reinserting the card caused no problem. Everything was normal.
Continue caused the OGO to make new database files on the B: drive. Turning
off and reinserting the card didn't bring the files from the card back
until I deleted the files created on the B: drive and soft reset.
In short, everything is back to normal. No damage to the files on the PC card.
>What could happen if a person pulled the PCMCIA card from the slot
>without clicking the card icon first?
>I am very unclear as to what kind of damage could happen, is it data
>loss? Permanent hardware damage?
>Curious
Christopher Paradies, Ph.D.
internet: paradies@epfl.ch
member: TMS, Sigma Xi
address: EPFL, LMPH, DMX-G 333, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland