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Re: External 3.5 floppy

> From: Jobe Bittman <>
> Oww! I did this before. I plugged in the power connector while the
machine
> was on and flash and an arc of blue energy erupted from the back of the
> floppy drive. It was totally fried!
> 
> From:	Tim Gray [mailto:]
> Well actually yes you can fry your floppy controller board by plugging
and
> unplugging while on. but laptops are the same. In fact every
>
> From: hurley bryan <>
> isn't there more to it than that? Mainly turning on and
> off the power and control lines? I can hook up a hard drive (IDE) while
the

Though the brand name/model escapes me at the moment, isnt there a laptop
"out there" that allows you to hot-swap its cd-rom / hdd / battery / floppy
drive from a single port?

I would believe that beside assuring that you had the polarity of the plug
you wanted to use aligned properly, you would want to connect data first,
then power. This can be achieved by staggering the connections.

Mike

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