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