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[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 04 March 2014, Les Howell sent:
> I periodically use a USB connected Arduino.  If I plug it back in
> too quickly it will go to a new com port.  If you unplug your device,
> simply wait a few seconds (well, sometimes a minute) before plugging
> it back in. 

A minute seems a bit extreme.  But it never fails to annoy me how a
computer that has a gigahertz clock speed can take several seconds to do
some tasks.  Sure, there are slower parts than the clock, but still...
Something like plugging in a USB stick ought to get recognised a lot
quicker.

And all it takes is for a bad connection, or lead, for something to get
disconnected when you don't know about it (such as a cable wobble), and
you have a device that's disconnected, reconnected, disconnected,
reconnected, in rapid succession.

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
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