on 13/02/01 09:13, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> on 12/02/01 23:49, KEMS at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> How 'bout a script that ejects it when the machine crashes? Or prior to
>> startup after a forced reboot (if that can possibly be). My 2400 has the MCE
>> USB upgrade. IE 5.0 still crashes unpredictably. When that happens, I often
>> forget to reach for the paper clip prior to the 3 finger salute reboot; and
>> then the machine freezes again on startup cuz the card's still inserted.
>
> You would need an extension that is loading first to do this. A logging
> AppleScript, in the Startup folder, would probably be called too late in the
> process (in fact, you wouldn't see it launching, since the machine would
> crash in the boot process).
>
> There are certainly ways to see if a crash happened, since the OS seems to
> detect this and will propose to repair the disk at startup.
Now that I'm thinking about this, that would be a good exercise, writing a
little extension to do this, i.e. Check at startup if there is a PCMCIA USB
card inserted and if so, eject it. I do programming for a living, but I've
never wrote any extension on the Mac, so I don't know if that would be hard
or not. But it might be fun.
Anybody has any idea if such extension would be useful? It wouldn¹t use any
system memory because after being loaded and done with its stuff, he would
just unloads itself until the next startup...
-Laurent.
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