Ejecting Sd Card

[Meanie]

Is there an applet or anything that lets you unmount a SD safely before it is ejected? There is an applet which allows you to do that for the CF and internal micdrodrive, but no option for the SD card. I would think that just popping the SD card out would be dangerous so what to do to eject it?
This is on a C3000 with OZ 3.5.4.1 OPIE

[pakman]

I tried OZ/Opie recently, and this was one reason why I abandoned it. I didn't think that it would be such a big deal at first, but I was surprised by how quickly it became incredibly annoying.
If you want to safely remove your SD card, open a console and type the command:

umount /media/sdcard

or wherever the SD card is mounted - I've forgotten where at the moment, but the command:

df

will tell you.
Regards,
P.

[lardman]

This is odd, as the opie card applet used to list cards in both the SD and CF slots (of all types, not just storage cards). This is either a bug in the applet itself, or perhaps the SD card is mounted sync so it doesn't require explicit umounting and the applet knows this...?


Si

[lardman]

I understand there are two applets: pcmcia-applet and opie-cardmon, the former only handles CF cards, the latter does both.


Si

[Meanie]

This is odd, as the opie card applet used to list cards in both the SD and CF slots (of all types, not just storage cards). This is either a bug in the applet itself, or perhaps the SD card is mounted sync so it doesn't require explicit umounting and the applet knows this...?


Si
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The applet shows both the external CF and the internal MicroDrive, but not the SD. This is annoying as you can easily unmount the incorrect card, ie the internal MicroDrive and the system would then lock up.
The SD card is indeed mounted with the sync option, but so is the CF card. It took over an hour to copy 100MB from the CF to the SD until I noticed the sync option for both were enabled and once I took out the sync option, the files transferred in minutes...

[poushag]

Meanie,
This may not be much of a solution but it works for me.  I only eject the SD to transfer backups I keep there to my workstation via a cardreader.  And this is not very frequent since most of the time I can copy them over samba.  But in any case, what I do is suspend the Z and then pop out the SD and use it with the cardreader.  Then when I'm done I put it back and wake up the Z.  Kinda low tech but effective (unless you have some reason you need the Z while the SD is out).  I only have one SD and it's big enough for all my Z stuff that doesnt fit on flash.  So this is fine for me.

[Meanie]

Meanie,
This may not be much of a solution but it works for me.  I only eject the SD to transfer backups I keep there to my workstation via a cardreader.  And this is not very frequent since most of the time I can copy them over samba.  But in any case, what I do is suspend the Z and then pop out the SD and use it with the cardreader.  Then when I'm done I put it back and wake up the Z.  Kinda low tech but effective (unless you have some reason you need the Z while the SD is out).  I only have one SD and it's big enough for all my Z stuff that doesnt fit on flash.  So this is fine for me.
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I am just being pedantic because I already had to replace my 4GB SD card twice. I found that after unmounting it, I still needed to wait at least 5-10 seconds before it is safe to eject it. OZ by default uses the sync option, but this makes the card so incredibly slow. I have many SD cards, and usually I leave them in my Z all the time. I use samba to transfer files via usb cable/ethernet or wifi depending on where I am but sometimes, I also need to quickly pop out the SD card to transfer files between my Zs and/or my other laptops. I found the SanDisk USB plus to be an excellent SD card for that.

[lardman]

I understand there are two applets: pcmcia-applet and opie-cardmon, the former only handles CF cards, the latter does both.

Install the latter and use it....


Si

[Meanie]

I understand there are two applets: pcmcia-applet and opie-cardmon, the former only handles CF cards, the latter does both.

Install the latter and use it....


Si
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actually, I tried that but it shows 2 CF cards, the microdrive and the external cf but no SD
i filed a bug, well, i filed several ones while i was at it...

[lardman]

actually, I tried that but it shows 2 CF cards, the microdrive and the external cf but no SD sad.gif
i filed a bug, well, i filed several ones while i was at it...

Ah, okay. Thanks for filing the bug.


Si