Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 18:38:03 -0500 From: "Manuel Rabade (MiG)" <mig@mig-29.net> To: "Ph. Schulz" <ph.schulz@gmx.de> Cc: hctan7@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Booting without keyboard. Message-ID: <20031006233803.GA340@mig-29.net> In-Reply-To: <3F81F526.8090107@gmx.de> References: <20031006033138.14059.qmail@web21307.mail.yahoo.com> <20031006131639.GB3467@isorauta.ntc.nokia.com> <20031006150017.GE8641@llama.fishballoon.org> <3F81F526.8090107@gmx.de>
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Some years ago I worked as technical service, and i see al least 2 machines with the keyboard port "burned" because of this :-P, but also i know about too many people that do it and nothing happens ... but i like to do it :-P. On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 01:05:10AM +0200, Ph. Schulz wrote: > >I've read (although never actually seen myself - so take this with as large > >a grain of salt as you like) that hotplugging PS/2 peripherals can damage > >the port you're plugging them into, so I'd be wary about doing this. > > This is what I've heard, too, but I've never seen a PS/2 port being > damaged from 'hot plugging' either. However, I've seen it quite a few > times that unplugging and replugging the mouse or the keyboard leaves > the device not working afterwards. I've seen this under FreeBSD as well > as under (I hate to admit it, but it's the PC at work) Windows NT4 and > 2000. I've read a magazine article once which said that this is not the > OS's responsibility but the hardware (keyboard or mouse) itself crashing. > So regardless if hot-plugging the keyboard works or not, if you plan > to do this several times a day, you might want to thing about getting a > KVM switch. > > Phil. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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