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, I guess I am behind the times (and I will have to find some Plug-n-PLay device and look at the connectors).
