AAAARRRgghhh-h-h. [[tooo tired]]

Waitman Gobble gobble.wa at gmail.com
Sat Aug 25 16:05:47 UTC 2012


On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:

>
> been here the whole day since around 09.00.  one question since the
> guy who did my kvm switch used too-short cables----they were ~4ft
> instead of 6.  my question:  Do any of you know if I can just buy
> kvm cables... of say 6ft?  it's a trendnet TK-409K.
>
>
> #2:: I have no idea how a USB port could burn out, but that's what
> the tech found.  anybody care to reply to either point??
>
> tx very tmuch
>
> --
>  Gary Kline  kline at thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service
> Unix
>               Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community.
>
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "
> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>

Hi Gary,

I don't recall a burn-out issue like that with a USB port, except maybe on
a notebook one time.. but I've recently seen some mobo mfgs advertising
'ESD resistant USB ports'. So I suppose that's been an issue...

Waitman Gobble
San Jose California USA


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list