From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 9 15:36:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEF7937B422 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 15:36:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f49MaRk24220; Wed, 9 May 2001 15:36:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Walter Betancourt" , Cc: Subject: RE: keyboard & monitor plug in w/power on Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 15:36:27 -0700 Message-ID: <003601c0d8d8$7c75bbc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20010509163956.00bba4c0@pop3.palace.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Plenty of companies manufacture electronic keyboard/monitor/mouse switchboxes. Cybex for example makes one that you can cascase by multiples of 8 an indefinite amount of times. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Walter >Betancourt >Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 1:42 PM >To: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: keyboard & monitor plug in w/power on > > >Wayne, > >that make's good sense, > >you would think some one would come up with an adapter/isolation device > >so there would'nt be a problem plugging/un-plugging. > >thanks > > >At 09:42 PM 5/9/01 +0100, you wrote: >>Walter Betancourt writes: >> >> > My instinct is to power off before plugging in keyboard or monitor, >> > >> > could be just windoze biting me, >> > >> > but it's common for servers to run without keyboard and >monitor attached. >> > >> > Can anyone give me a for sure answer, >> > >> > can keyboard and monitor be plugged in without power down, >> >>Monitor is generally quite safe. On older AT motherboards, it is >>possible to blow the keyboard controller on the motherboard by hot >>plugging a keyboard in. With PS/2 devices, it is possible to fry the >>keyboard when plugging it in with power on. >> >>However, on our servers the downtime to power down to plug a keyboard >>in is _far_ more expensive than the GBP8 for a new keyboard. And so >>far I've only blown 2 keyboards during the hundreds of times I've >>plugged in with the power on. >> >>-- >>- Wayne Pascoe >>E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk >>Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 >>Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 > >Walt > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message