laptop pc card removal

[fire400]

wireless N card

connected to network or not, what's the difference?

if I just pull it out w/o safely removing hardware, dmg, yes or no?

any other thoughts?

 

[oynaz]

IIRC, PCMCIA is designed to be hot swappable, like USB.

 

[corkyg]

I have hot plugged them for years - never a problem. Pulling a network card would not be much different than turning built-in Wi-Fi on and off with a button onthe laptop.

 

[fire400]

now that is awesome...

thx guys

do you know if this will work the same for SATA/IDE/SCSI PC card-type removal?

 

[corkyg]

Can't speak to SATA/IDE, but SCSI I have removed - as long as it was not in use at the time. Same for Firewire and USB. As long as they are not actually in use, I see no problem.