From: PaulMmn (PaulMmn_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: Fri Jun 22 2001 - 18:15:59 PDT
Paul--
I've watched with antici......pation your efforts to learn what's
inside of Newton, and I congratulate you on your success!
It's amazing all of the support that Newton in general still has;
your ATA driver will add years of life to Newtonkind.
I read your latest status report, and have a comment.
>You said (in part): 3/ driver work:
>
>- maybe handle brutal removal of the card (if I find out how to do that)
If by handling brutal removal you mean deal with all of the loose
ends when someone just ejects a card perhaps what Newton does when I
remove a 'normal' memory card would suffice: my Newton usually says
something like, "Hey, I'm still using that. Put it back." I put the
card back, then it says, "OK, you can now remove card xxx."
I assume that the OS just suspends all pending activity for the card
until the Human puts it back in, tidies things up, then tells the
Human that -now- it's safe to remove the card.
--Paul
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