> You're not unplugging your ADB keyboard while the Mac is running, are you?
I have always unplugged ADB keyboards while the computer is running, not just my PowerMac 7300, but my old G3 350Mhz Blue & White, all our SE/30s, SE, Classics, Plus, etc.
When you say do not unplug while running, does that mean do not unplug from anywhere, or only the actual connection to the back of the computer. In other words, is it ok to unplug the ADB keyboard where the cord connects to the keyboard itself?
I've never had any problems. Maybe I'm just extremely lucky?
You've been lucky.
ADB is NOT designed to be hot pluggable in any way, ever.
Unplugging ADB devices when your Mac is powered-up runs the risk of electrical shorts. Doesn't matter which plug you pull or how you pull it. The shorts can damage the device (keyboard, mouse, etc) AND the computer's motherboard.
AND - worse - the ADB driver in the Mac OS doesn't expect you to be removing devices dynamically. It periodically polls the apple desktop bus for updated information (long key presses and mouse movement), and will hang the entire systems waiting for device responses. If, at the time of that hang, you have a disk cache write in progress,,, oops you just corruped your drive.
- Dan.
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