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Date:      Sat, 5 May 2001 12:10:08 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Ceri Storey <c.storey@student.umist.ac.uk>
Cc:        Ingo Flaschberger <if@sil.at>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: no keyboard
Message-ID:  <20010505121008.E18676@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010505195859.A383@cds220.halls.umist.ac.uk>; from c.storey@student.umist.ac.uk on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 07:58:59PM %2B0100
References:  <3AF44907.D1DC4C89@herbelot.com> <Pine.SOL.4.21.0105052051180.16630-100000@ikarus> <20010505195859.A383@cds220.halls.umist.ac.uk>

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* 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.

FreeBSD 4.3 allows hotswap again.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org]
http://www.egr.unlv.edu/~slumos/on-netbsd.html

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