Re: Hot PCI bus plugging

Stephen Williams (steve@icarus.com)
Mon, 22 Nov 1999 08:36:33 -0800

ak@ebox.de said:
> You may wonder, why somebody would want such a feature, because it's
> really not a very good idea to insert a PCI card into a running
> desktop system.

You can also buy bus extenders for ISA and PCI that have power switches.
This allows for example testing a batch of boards without rebooting the
host computer.

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