On Saturday, February 23, 2019 07:53:23 AM Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 23/02/2019 à 08:53, David Christensen a écrit :
> Understand that if you disconnect the power cable to a motherboard,
> drive, peripheral, etc., but not all the other cables (e.g. SATA cable),
> you can fry electronics.
Right. This is why power pins are longer than data pins in plug&play
connectors, so that they are connected first and disconnected last.
Hmm, that surprises me -- I guess I would have expected that you want the data
pins connected first (while no power is applied), and disconnected last (again,
while no power is applied). Interesting,