On Jun 28, 2005, at 10:31 AM, Daniel wrote:
USB connections can be made while the computer is on or off. They cannot be made while the computer is asleep. (Macs will automatically wake up when you try to connect or disconnect USB devices when they are asleep.)
To clarify, they *can* be connected and disconnected while the computer is asleep without problem, it will just wake up your Mac. If you are using a laptop and it is closed, it will wake up briefly when connected/disconnected, but then will shortly go back to sleep. Of course if you are disconnecting a flash drive or hard drive, then it must have been unmounted(i.e. dragged to the trash, which in OS X turns into an eject icon) before so that there is no data loss or corruption, just the same as for when the system is awake.
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