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On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:55:30 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: |
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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 |
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> > I'd 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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I used to think the same way, until the risk turned out to be less |
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negligible than I thought. It's entirely your choice whether you continue |
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to take that risk, but I don't think it is fair to tell others it is |
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safe to do so. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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She's fine, upstanding, and wonderful laying down. |
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