On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Justin Kremer wrote: > On 9/5/06, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: >> Thanks. I understand. It is usually a bad idea to disconnect mouse or >> keyboard from a running computer, so I haven't done it with my KVM and I >> don't know how it would cope with that. It would probably fail. > > Oh, I actually meant that some KVM's will spontaneously disconnect the > keyboard or mouse. You can have the computer running with all cables > securely connected the whole time, and switch to one of the systems, and > you won't be able to use the mouse. That's very frustrating when it > happens. That's the issue that we have with the Belkin ones. OK. Then I guess my original point stands because my KVM (TRENDnet) has never done that. It has worked consistently. Mike