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Title: Sooo... I lost my CF slot protector...
Post by: kotj.mf on April 10, 2004, 01:06:35 pm

Actually, I\'m more than a little shocked that it\'s taken me this long.

Does anybody know where I might find some replacements?

I supposed I could just stick a CF card in there, but I\'m a little concerned that it might be a power drain.

A little help?

Thanks.

Title: Sooo... I lost my CF slot protector...
Post by: n8a on April 10, 2004, 01:31:49 pm

Man, I haven\'t used my CF protector ever I don\'t think!

I would think the power drain is quite minimal, as long as you\'re not reading/witing to the card, so my vote is to replace it with a CF memory card.

If you want to make sure that the card is not a memory drain, I would think that disabling the CF card (cardctl commands) or disabling PCMCIA (/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia) would take care of it.

Title: Sooo... I lost my CF slot protector...
Post by: derekp on April 12, 2004, 12:05:44 pm

Or, just put a piece of duct tape over the slot :-)

I think there is a section in the ZUG faq that addresses power drain of various components, and it lists the drainage of an idle CF card.