tortoise wrote:
On Jan 12, 1:51 am, [email protected] wrote:
ADB DEFINITIVLY is hot pluggable - but the cdev settings have to be adjusted.
SCSI is not.
To hotplug SCSI you need scsi probe to access / mount a hard drive. I
did it last week.
When I have hotplug ADB (whoops the kb / mouse wasn't plugged in). I
get a "slow mouse" but things do work.
Tablets don't get loaded as tablet though they may work in mouse mode.
Supposed to be very careful to insert the plug straight on so all pins
hit at the same instant.
It won't happen, nothing happens simultaneously. It's probably more
important what sequence the pins connect.
Any connection CAN be hot plugged. Some like Ethernet, USB, Serial and
Firewire are designed to be and some like ADB and SCSI are not designed
to be. You can hot plug ADB and SCSI and get away with it, 9 times in
10 or 99 in 100 or whatever. But they aren't designed for it
electrically. There are a number of things one does to make something
hot swappable.
But ADB and SCSI can both be damaged by hot swapping them.
Also, both SCSI and ADB are not hot swappable in software.
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