Re: \Storage Card doesn't always reload when ATADISK reloaded

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PNPUnloadDelay should be 0 to fix the issue you see. It is intended to delay
unloading and invalidating the block driver, file system and handles for the
driver. The idea is to allow a user to re-insert the card if it was
accidentally removed and have all open file handles remain valid.

The other thing we did (but I thought was in the QFEs was to mod the ATADISK
driver to hack up a variation of Pre-DeInit and PreClose that protected the
driver from issues of the system dismounting while it's loading as the rapid
load/unload that can happen due to bounce on that switch (or in our case the
battery contacts causing suspend/resume when inserting a new battery) that
triggers some bad error case handling problems in FileSys.exe crashing
mountable storage devices until reset.

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Steve Maillet
EmbeddedFusion
www.EmbeddedFusion.com
smaillet at EmbeddedFusion dot com


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