[KLUG Members] PC Cardbus CDROM on Vaio

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > Broader question: Do we mount file systems or devices? When Linux is
> Filesystems. Which is why you mount /dev/hda1 rather then /dev/hda [why do 
> I have such a hard time remembering that little number? aargh].

Thats a bad example,  /dev/hda1 is a device, just one that happens to
denote the region of another the device.  The *contents* of /dev/hda1 is
what gets mounted.  The process of mounting can either be informed what
type of filesystem is present or can sniff-n-guess.  You can make a
filesystem on /dev/hda (minus the number) or have partitions that are
not filesystems (pvs, raw devices, etc...)

> However, with things like PCMCIA/PC Card, Cardbus, USB, Firewire, and 
> other Hot Swap-able devices you can stop the device. With your cardbus CD 
> as an example: if you wanted to eject your card while the computer was 
> running it would be "unsafe" to just pop the card out [and in windows you 
> get yelled at for doing so]. To "safely" remove the card issue the command
> cardctl eject

Do you know if there is a cardctl widget/applett?