Originally Posted by Bowman Impact - The break out boards I have been looking at buying use opto-Isolation to prevent any current from going back to the PC through the port. I think this is one of the main advantages to using a seperate breakout board ..... |
Jeff at Xylotex has posted recently that he is not aware of anyone's PC ever being damaged this way while using a Xylotex. And come to think of it, I'm not sure if I've heard of anyone's PC being damaged with any drives, at least not in the last 2 years or so that I've been here. I also read a few Yahoo groups daily. While a lot of people make a big deal about isolating the PC, damage caused by no isolation just doesn't really seem to happen. At least I havent seen it. Not that it couldn't happen, though.