Re: [Linux-7110-psion] 5mx hardware info

[Andrew J. <an...@ap...>]

Tony Lindgren wrote:
> 
> I managed to break the little plastic spring that toggles that switch when
> opening the CF card door. So I took out the door altogether, and stuffed
> some rolled up paper there to keep the switch jammed in all the time. This
> actually saves about 1 sec per flip not having to open the door :) But if
> the CF card relies on that for the change detection, I guess I need to fix
> that eventually :(

If you plan to change CF cards yes, but if you only ever use one maybe it
doesn't matter...

> Hopefully the door open switch is just used as an early warning to
> unmount the CF card cleanly, and there's some other media detection
> interrupt...

Under EPOC at least the answer is definitely no - there was a report from
a guy on comp.sys.psion.misc just the other day who was having all kinds
of problems in EPOC when switching between two CF cards.  I suggested that
his door switch was broken and he admitted that his door had broken off
some time back, but that he'd only just got a second CF card and only just
noticed funny behaviour.  With a broken switch you'll probably have to
hard reset EPOC every time you change the disk or risk FAT corruption and
possible loss of data.

- Andrew
-- 
Every great idea appears crazy to start with.