Re: What cables can be hot-plugged?

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

schmidtd wrote:
> On Oct 9, 3:10�pm, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:
>> schmidtd wrote:
>> > On Oct 9, 2:18 pm, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:
>> >> Anyone have a list of what cables can be safely hot-plugged?
>>
>> >> Specifically, I'm interested in knowing about the: joystick port,
>> >> serial
>> >> cable from an SSC, mouse port, and any other similar port.
>>
>> > I do Serial and ADB all the time.
>>
>> Really? ADB? You must have a lot of guts. I managed to fry the ADB
>> controller chip on a Mac LC by accidentally hot-plugging it.
> 
> I have one keyboard with mouse, and a stack of 2 macs and a IIgs; I
> just yank the plug and move it to the machine I need to use.  I did it
> a lot while I was working on booting the GS over AppleTalk. :-)
> 

Well, look at it from my point of view: I've already fried a Mac! I'm not
going to risk doing it purposely.

Anyway, on the IIe, I hot-plugged the joystick and serial cable, (to an
ImageWriter II) but I turned off the power to plug in the AppleMouse.

Now I am quite sure that hot-plugging a Disk ][ is a bad idea, but I am
hesitant to try an hot-plugging an Apple 5.25" drive with the Apple 5.25
controller card.

Speaking of the Apple 5.25 drive, I had a big scare about a year ago when I
had both the Apple IIgs and the Mac Classic set up side-by-side, and I
accidentally plugged the Apple 5.25 into the Mac Classic's disk port! (I
must have been distracted) Ack! From what I've read, that's a good way to
destroy the SWIM chip in the Mac.

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