I agree with you that is good practice and I try to follow it except in the case of my mouse and my sleeping PowerBook 3400. However, in all my years of using Macs I've never had this happen even when forgetting to shutdown. Anyone else ever burned out an ADB port by not shutting down prior to connecting something?Remember, ADB isn't hot-pluggable. That's a good way to burn out your ADB port. Always shutdown prior to connecting/disconnecting ADB devices.
Well, I'm pretty religious about it myself ever since accidentally snagging the mouse cord on something I was moving and hearing the *SNAP* of an arc. Things still worked OK, but I attribute that to dumb luck. Others that have done that have had their ADB stop working (IIRC, that's from a Help Desk column in an old MacWorld mag).
- Eric. --
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