On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:40:25PM +0000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> pulled a network card out of my machine once mid way through someone
> saying "is that still switched on?"...
>> didn't do any harm to anyone it didn't :-)
I've done it a few times with no apparent harm to anything but never
deliberately. However, an old friend of mine who puts his hands on a lote
more PC hardware than I do regularly hot plugs PCI cards and says that he's
never had a problem. The boxes he's using are regular PCs mind - not fancy
dancy things with hot plug PCI.
Niall
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