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Title: Microdrive / Compact Flash power consumption in suspend?
Post by: omega on June 09, 2004, 08:50:13 am

Hi,

I would like to know if you can power down a CF card / microdrive by software - i assume something using cardctl or something. What is the power drain in this situation? Would i notice a CF card in general sitting in my Z in terms of battery life?  

It\'s easy to remove the SD card, but i put my brothers 340 meg microdrive card in and i found it very difficult to remove without removing the pdair case first.

Title: Microdrive / Compact Flash power consumption in suspend?
Post by: pgas2 on June 09, 2004, 09:19:52 am

using cardctl you can eject insert a card, cardctl --help.
you can also do this using the applet on the bar if I rember well.

My guess is as  Cf and sd card are solid memory for micro drive i don\'t know, they wont drain power unless they are accessed.