On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Tom Diehl wrote: > > In practice this is not true. When plugging the keyboard and display directly > > into the machine after boot everything works fine. I'm not using a mouse. I > > would not expect the PS/2 mouse to work, however I would expect the keyboard and > > video to work. Whether or not it's good to be 'hotplugging' these devices is a > > different issue. > > Not trying to start some kind of religious war but as a real world datapoint > I have been hot plugging PS/2 keyboards and mice since the first ones came out > years ago. Never had a problem.
OTOH a chap I know says he saw one get fried by hotplugging. If it's your computer, fine. If it's someone else's then I suggest you don't.
