[geeks] WTB: FH 5.25" SCSI-1 enclosure

[Geoff Reed]

> > A tekky on campus (employee in computer center, not student) said that
> > technically, external SCSI is meant to be hot swappable, and usually if 
> there
> > are problems it is either from incorrect SCSI cards, or OSs that 
> support it
> > proper.  I thought that sounded cool, but I've never heard it from 
> anywhere
> > else.
>
>He's full of crap - it's not intended to be hot-swap.  That said, if you
>are careful, you can switch *inactive* devices.  It's not something I
>would do in a production enviroment unless I had some serious practive
>first.

Granite digital makes some cool devices to let you do this more safely 
:)  flip a switch and it isolates the device from the scsi chain :)