On Jan 14, 9:03 pm, Gregg Eshelman <[email protected]> wrote: > --- On Thu, 1/14/10, tortoise <[email protected]> wrote: >
> Most hot-pluggable connections have the power connections longer than the > data connections so the device gets powered up before >making the data linkup. Isn't there such a think as "sleep swappable" ? I do a lot more hotplugging with machines that support sleep. > > USB, FireWire, Compact Flash, PCMCIA/CardBus, SD and most other memory cards > are that way. The problem issue devices which are bus powered then ? (ADB = yes, SCSI = no). > > "Legacy" connectors like ADB, PS/2, serial, parallel, SCSI etc have all > connectors the same length. > > I suppose in theory that an ADB plug with the power and ground pins slightly > longer than the other two pins might be hot-pluggable, but there'd still be > the issue of the software side not being written to handle devices suddenly > appearing and vanishing.
-- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
