On Feb 12, 2004, at 6:40 AM, Brian Olesky wrote: > I started hot swapping only when awake > (me and the machine) and haven't had a problem since. Good idea. I'm finding out too that not doing this may cause problems. Now I connect/disconnect my zip drive/printer/card reader etc. only when my iBook is awake. Jim 12" 700 G3 (2002) iBook/640/20/OS10.3.2