[Ti] Need help with PCMCIA memory card reader

[Benn]

On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 10:32  PM, Steve Martin wrote:
> I've been having similar problems with a PC Card CompactFlash reader 
> on my 500Mhz TiBook with 10.2.6.  When the PC Card is inserted, the 
> mouse becomes a little sluggish and everything is locked up.  If I 
> eject it forcibly I get a kernel panic.
>
> But, if I shutdown the PowerBook, insert the PC Card then boot, it 
> works fine and iPhoto launches and can import the pictures and 
> everything.  It is only the "live insert" that fails.
>
> It worked fine several releases ago, but I don't know for sure when it 
> started misbehaving.  One time after the crash lots of applications 
> were pretty severely messed up and I had random kernel panics on 
> restart so I ended up having to reinstall the OS.

Same here with my SanDisk compactflash card PCMCIA adapter.  Quite 
unfortunate.  I thought it was my tibook but the same happens on my 17" 
powerbook, too.

Benn