Andreas,

So it sounds like what you want to do is write an application that performs the following actions:

1) Poll the CD1/CD2 pins at some interval to determine when a CF card has been inserted or removed.

2) Based on the presence (or lack thereof) of a CF card, you want the CE filesystem to mount or unmount the CF card as a block device.

It sounds like your well on your way to handling step 1. As far as step two goes, I don't have any direct experience with it. However, the Windows CE help file has a section on the Storage Manager. In the "Storage Manager Reference" several functions (APIs) are listed including; DismountPartition, MountPartition, DismountStore, OpenStore, etc. So, I guess I would poke around there and see if some of those functions will suite your needs.

You can also try the Windows CE newsgroups. I typically head to the DejaNews versions here:

http://groups.google.com/...indowsce.platbuilder

Best regards,

--mikee

Andreas --

Have you had any luck with that hotswapping thing? It sounds a bit complicated, and I know it's a bit out of my realm. I was curious if you'd any success finding or developing a program that would allow you to use a compact flash more like a typical floppy disk. This business of needing to reboot every time you put something new on the card is for the birds.

Well, good luck.

Pete

Hi Pete,

I found some hints in the discussion forums Mike mentions but had a hard time opening a handle to the file system and as a result couldn't reload the file system.

I have to save this for a rainy day (fat chance in CA this time of the year) as more urgent issues came up but I do need the hot swap feature as well. I'll post the procedures when I get something working.

until then,

Andreas