On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Gevaerts Frank wrote:
> >
> > AFAIK, you have always been able to "hot swap" items on the parallel port
> > - so long as you're not physcially disconnecting the actual parallel port
> > from the motherboard, you are all set, and you can do whatever you want.
> > I switch my printers around all the time like this.
>
> You can do it if you like, but the parallel port is not designed for it,
> so if it blows up, you have no warranty.
>
Hm... that's very interesting. Any external port that I have ever seen in
existance has been able to hot swap, although I wouldn't do it ever again
with something like a Zip drive or an external SCSI device, but you can do
it and from the hardware end of things, anyway, I've never seen a problem.
Software, on the other hand, is a different question, depending on the
involved things.
- Mike
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