> On Sat, 5 May 2001, Ceri Storey wrote:
>
> > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:54:18PM +0200, Ingo Flaschberger wrote:
> > > > Note : this is a way to kill your keyboard : an AT keyboard is not
> > > > hot-plug compatible
> > >
> > > i have never killed a keyboard with un / plugging.
> > > at linux it works.
> > Well, it works, until your keyboard does actually break :)
>
> I've toasted lot of keyboards this way (Fujitsu POS no less). I have found
> that IBM keyboards take the punishment quite well. At least I can count on
> IBM engineering. As a result, that's the only type of kbd we keep in our
> datacenters.
While IBM keyboards are good (I've hot-plugged and otherwise abused a few in
my day), IBM computers have had their share of faulty engineering. A high
school I worked at once had quite a problem with some IBM PS/1 desktops,
which exhibited the following traits:
- hot-plugging a keyboard would either fry the keyboard or damage the MB
(still usuable, just no KB support)
- hot-plugging a keyboard into the PS/2 mouse port (no thanks to some badly
oriented labels) would provide a few sparks, some smoke, and a toasted
keyboard and MB.
--
Matt Emmerton
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