From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 6 6:44: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts8.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11BFE37B422 for ; Sun, 6 May 2001 06:43:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([64.228.153.241]) by tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010506134356.KMN15234.tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Sun, 6 May 2001 09:43:56 -0400 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f46DfKN33459; Sun, 6 May 2001 09:41:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <003301c0d631$d3b83420$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Gordon Tetlow" Cc: References: Subject: Re: no keyboard Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 09:38:25 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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