Of course 

Forum: PCMCIA ATA/IDE Device Issues
Re: SmartMedia fails after a few retries (Benjamin Fuhrmannek)
Re: Do not "hot eject" IDE devices (David Hinds)
Re: OK, but... (Benjamin Fuhrmannek)
Date: 2000, Jun 19
From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

> > Isn't it possible to "hot eject" those devices without wasting resources? Sure, it is possible in principle. But do you want to be the one to fix the kernel IDE driver to handle it? -- Dave

to: "Of course"