On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:55:30 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: > > You were lucky, it's like forgetting to look when you cross the road. > > Getting away with it once doesn't mean it is safe. > > > > Yes, I have blown a UART chip by hotplugging a serial cable, because > > I'd got away with it before. > > I must have hot plugged serial connections on Sun, Cisco and Intel > boxes hundreds of times over the years and as far as i know have never > seen a failure. Typically, the same device would be hot plugged > multiple times so failures would have been noticed. I consider the > risk to be negligible.
I used to think the same way, until the risk turned out to be less negligible than I thought. It's entirely your choice whether you continue to take that risk, but I don't think it is fair to tell others it is safe to do so. -- Neil Bothwick She's fine, upstanding, and wonderful laying down.
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