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[LUG] System grinds to a halt when using PCMCIA slot

 

Evening all.

I've got a PCMCIA CF reader and a CF SD reader. To clarify:
SD Card --> CF card --> PCMCIA card --> laptop

This works fine, except for a pretty annoying problem. Whenever the 
system uses the card (reading or writing) everything else grinds to a 
halt. It's like the kernel ignores everything else whilst the card is in 
use. This is a minor irritation when using small files, but I'm usually 
copying a whole pile of stuff to or from it, and the system is unusable 
whilst that is happening.

Anyone know why this might be or how to fix it?

Thanks.
Simon

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