Hi,

If you can obtain the card wizard for your particular PCMCIA cards, NT 4
will support hot-swapping. For example, IBM ThinkPads use a Card Wizard and
our folks can hot-swap when using their digital cameras - ALTHOUGH, we have
had several other issues arise and it's not always 100%.

Guido Piraino
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 1:51 PM
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> Subject: [PCBUILD] WIN NT Hot Swapping
>
>
> My company is in need of a PCMCIA (or compact flash) card-reader
> that allows
> hot-swapping under an NT environment.  We are currently running WIN 2K to
> get this functionality on some of our boxes (due to security reasons, we
> cannot use WIN 9X).  Is this a limitation of the OS or the
> drivers made for
> the card-readers?
>
> We have about 50-75 digital cameras that we use photos from on a daily
> basis, so rebooting each time we change out a card is not an option, as we
> go through 50-200 cards or so each day...any thoughts/information will be
> greatly appreciated.
>
>

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