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> You were lucky, it's like forgetting to look when you cross the road. |
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> Getting away with it once doesn't mean it is safe. |
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> Yes, I have blown a UART chip by hotplugging a serial cable, because I'd |
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> got away with it before. |
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I must have hot plugged serial connections on Sun, Cisco and Intel |
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boxes hundreds of times over the years and as far as i know have never |
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seen a failure. Typically, the same device would be hot plugged |
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multiple times so failures would have been noticed. I consider the |
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risk to be negligible. |
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