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Simon Williams wrote: > 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 > I take it the card comes up as a block device, and isn't Compact Flash basically an IDE device? Could it be related to DMA? I can't help but think it's a rather long winded way of reading an SD card. Wouldn't a USB SD card reader be a more elegant solution? (or doesn't the laptop have USB?). Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html