Re(2): Re(2): [SunRescue] a bit OT but...

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 12:42:44PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > Do you parachute and bungee jump too?  Live SCSI bus changes are a
> > Bad Thing (tm).
>   No way, Bill.  SCSI deals just fine with hot swaps...as it was
> designed to do.  I've done it on hundreds of machines, most of them
> Suns, starting with a Sun2/120.  It works just fine...it really
> does!
>                   -Dave McGuire

You've got to be kidding.  I've always, ALWAYS been told that you DONT
unplug a live SCSI chain, EVER EVER.  I've never had good results trying
to "hot-add" devices either... Sure, I've hot-swapped SCSI disks on things
like NetApps, but those boxes have a "swap mode" where they stop all SCSI
activity on the bus, you swap the drives, wait 10 seconds, it resets, then
re-scans the bus.... 

Bill

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