Re: Soft Eject of devices

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From: Doron Holan [MS] (doronh_at_nospam.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:15:20 -0800

unless you have a special PCMCIA controller that can eject cards w/out human
help, requesting eject will only get you a software eject. you will still
have to remove the card.

d 

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"MICHAEL CARR" <mcarr67@email.uophx.edu> wrote in message 
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> We plug in a PCMCIA card which registers as an NEC device that assigns it 
> a
> COMM Port. Once the test is complete we need to eject the card so that we
> can insert a new one.
>
> -- 
> MICHAEL CARR
> "Doron Holan [MS]" <doronh@nospam.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:Ovp5vW8xEHA.3024@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> what is the housing that is performing the eject?  the underlying bus/hw
>> driver must support this mechanism.
>>
>> d
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>> "Kiran" <Kiran@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:EEAAED91-7B08-4FE3-9AF3-942376460DCD@microsoft.com...
>> > CM_Request_Device_Eject
>> > If the device has to be ejected from a service,
>> > CM_Remove_SubTree.
>> >
>> > Refer DDK for details.
>> >
>> > "MICHAEL CARR" wrote:
>> >
>> >> We are creating a driver that must perform a soft eject of a device so
>> >> that we can pull the device out and then insert another one. Can 
>> >> anyone
>> >> point me to some documentation or give me some code that can perform
> this
>> >> task.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -- 
>> >> MICHAEL CARR
>>
>>
>
>

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