Burning hot pc card 

Forum: PCMCIA driver development
Date: 2000, Aug 27
From: Daniel R. Gilliam drgillia

I posted on Usenet, but also figured I should post here. Some have been having trouble with their pcmcia cards getting red hot; I'm having the same problem. I'm running a Toshiba 105CS with SuSE 6.4. The pc card is a 56K Zoom card, which works fine other than getting red hot. I've switched slots to see what will happen... Any other ideas? - Dan

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The "hot card" reports have not been sorted out Re: Burning hot pc card (Daniel R. Gilliam) Date: 2000, Aug 29 From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

> > Any other ideas? No, not without more testing. At least some of the reports of hot cards seem to just be that other things in the systems are getting hot and transfering heat to the card(s). Windows may be doing a better job of power management in general, so the fact that the card doesn't get hot in Windows doesn't necessarily mean that the PCMCIA drivers are at fault. The 'cardctl status' command will show what voltages are being supplied to each socket. -- Dave

1. Re: The "hot card" reports have not been sorted out by Daniel R. Gilliam, 2000, Aug 29 (_ Also try powering down the card by David Hinds, 2000, Aug 29 (_ Re: Also try powering down the card by Daniel R. Gilliam, 2000, Aug 30

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