re interesting adb behaviour on c in apr waikato ac nz ldo waikato ac nz lawrence d oliveiro waikato university writes i have heard of no such warnings from anybody at apple just to be sure i asked a couple of our technicians one of whom has been servicing macs for years there is no danger of damaging logic boards by plugging and unplugging adb devices with the power on the problem is that the pins in the adb connector are close to each other and if you happen to bend the cable a little while inserting it you short the adb port if you take it to an apple repair centre that means a new motherboard though a component replace is physically possible same goes for serial ports localtalk as well cheers h jon w tte h nada kth se mac hacker deluxe this article printed on recycled electrons
