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Fried out the FW port on a TiBook 500 a few years ago, turned out it was mainly a problem with bus-powered devices, which was what I was using at the time. Other than that no trouble, the biggest precaution I take is to never have devices powered on when I dis/connect them, audio interface, drives, video capture card, whatever, be they self- or bus-powered. All said, Paddy's story of pulling out the redundant cable and getting a freeze is pretty scary, I always try avoid messing with stuff when there's large amounts of data flying down cables....something goes wrong and 9/10 times it's just your impatience that's fu**ed you up really.

I fried my first MOTU Traveller, unplugged too early while shutting down after a jam, the next day all that came out of it was *beeeep-click-beeeep-click*.

Thank god for 30 day exchange.

I don't hot plug anything now, learned my lesson.

using m-audio (oxygen 8,fw410,midisport,delta 1010,delta410)nowfor 5 years....never had trouble...but maybe it´s becausei´ma pc user...


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love that brand....

my buddy unplugged a fw hard drive containing his entire cd collection from his pc laptop and when he plugged it back in, the entire 250gb drive was completely empty. no errors reported... just ... empty. needless to say he hasn't hotswapped since then...

Lets hear it for low grade computer equipment...

single handedly destroying consumer confidence for over 30 years.