Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 15:41:14 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Paul Halliday <dp@penix.org> Cc: Ceri Storey <c.storey@student.umist.ac.uk>, Ingo Flaschberger <if@sil.at>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no keyboard Message-ID: <20010505154114.F18676@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <3AF46881.67D34B9D@penix.org>; from dp@penix.org on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 04:54:25PM -0400 References: <3AF44907.D1DC4C89@herbelot.com> <Pine.SOL.4.21.0105052051180.16630-100000@ikarus> <20010505195859.A383@cds220.halls.umist.ac.uk> <20010505121008.E18676@fw.wintelcom.net> <3AF46881.67D34B9D@penix.org>
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* Paul Halliday <dp@penix.org> [010505 13:41] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > * Ceri Storey <c.storey@student.umist.ac.uk> [010505 11:59] wrote: > > > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:54:18PM +0200, Ingo Flaschberger wrote: > > > > > Note : this is a way to kill your keyboard : an AT keyboard is not > > > > > hot-plug compatible > > > > > > > > i have never killed a keyboard with un / plugging. > > > > at linux it works. > > > Well, it works, until your keyboard does actually break :) > > > > It can actually fry the entire motherboard. I doubt linux can > > prevent that. > > > > it would blow the inline fuse before it fries the mother board. Anything is possible, and I have heard of it happening at least once. One of the other fun things about hot swapping keyboards is that you can actually damage the connector which can cause a short on the motherboard if the poor thing detaches then proceeds to relocate itself across some contacts. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org] Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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