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Hi Wilba, thanks for the reply, I'll just try it out. The reason for wanting it hot-pluggable is just laziness: I don't want to have to double-check I've switched the thing off before I plug in the control surface. I'll post the results :-) Greets, MArtin

Hi /tilted/, thanks for your answer - using a spare D-Sub pin as plug detect is something I've been thinking about, too. Greets, Martin

Hi Roger, I don't think that will be an issue - a 5m 25pin D-Sub SCSI cable has an around 15 Ohm, so the voltage drop is not that big. And I guess SCSI is clocked as high as the MBPH LCD bus. What I'm more afraid of electrically is that the MBPH core won't be able to handle the suddenly increased power consumption - and in term of MIOS, I don't know whether there's a way to initialize a "new found" LCD, and to de-initialize a unplugged one. Greets, Martin

Hi, is it possible to hot-plug the LCD display (i.e. plug/unplug a LCD while the core is running)? I'm currently building a MIDI switcher/arpeggiator, which is designed to sit in the back of my rack and will not have any controls, but I'm thinking about building some kind of remote control containing a 2x16 display, one encoder and 6 push buttons, connected via a 25 pin cable (standard parallell port cable w/full wiring). I've already found from another thread that the DIN lines basically are hot-pluggable and wondered whether I could hot plug the LCD, too.