Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 09:38:25 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Gordon Tetlow" <gordont@bluemtn.net> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: no keyboard Message-ID: <003301c0d631$d3b83420$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105060144270.16321-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com>
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> On Sat, 5 May 2001, Ceri Storey 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 :) > > I've toasted lot of keyboards this way (Fujitsu POS no less). I have found > that IBM keyboards take the punishment quite well. At least I can count on > IBM engineering. As a result, that's the only type of kbd we keep in our > datacenters. While IBM keyboards are good (I've hot-plugged and otherwise abused a few in my day), IBM computers have had their share of faulty engineering. A high school I worked at once had quite a problem with some IBM PS/1 desktops, which exhibited the following traits: - hot-plugging a keyboard would either fry the keyboard or damage the MB (still usuable, just no KB support) - hot-plugging a keyboard into the PS/2 mouse port (no thanks to some badly oriented labels) would provide a few sparks, some smoke, and a toasted keyboard and MB. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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