Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Jun 1997 21:36:00 +0200 | From | (Harald Milz) | Subject | Re: rescan scsi |
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Richard B. Johnson (root@analogic.com) wrote: > > If this is not a joke you should get 40 lashes from a wet noodle. You > do not connect or disconnect anything from a SCSI bus when power is on > even if you "prove" that it can be done.
This is not true. There are some commercial Unixes out there which allow for dynamically load / unload device drivers (some are nearly as good as Linux in this respect...). I have been using this a lot on AIX and never had problems.
> Nevertheless, it is possible. There is no existing kernel code to support > this. You CAN swap drives that are identical by dismounting the existing
40 more lashes for you :-)
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