Coldplug Hotplugging Computer System (1 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articlesavailable from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Coldplugging isoften taken to mean the opposite of hotplugging. In other words, theinability of a computer system to add or remove hardware withoutpowering the system down. Examples of devices that are coldpluggableinclude PCI, ISA devices, and PATA devices. In most computer systemsCPUs and memory are coldpluggable, but it is common for high-end serversand mainframes to feature hotplug capability of these components.Sometimes, devices that would be hotpluggable may appear to only becoldpluggable because of deficiencies in the system software. Forexample, PS/2 pointer devices are generally hotpluggable, but MicrosoftWindows 95 and related operating systems would commonly have to berebooted every time a PS/2 mouse was replaced, in order to detect thenew mouse. Similarly, systems which were intended to be hot pluggablesuch as the RS232 serial interface, are in practice only cold pluggabledue to limitations of the connector ultimately chosen for the interface in this case the 25- or 7-pin 'D' style connector. …