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> If you can power it off you should be fine.  If you pull the cable
> you conceivable could kill your array

Seems to fit with how our 'proper' hotswap drives work, they
do let you pull the drive from the cage but have two rows of pins,
one row gets connected/disconnected before the other. A poweroff
is a lot more 'normal' situation.

> and have to backup from tape.

Good point to make assuming this is a live system with important
data :-))) Joe make sure you have a tape or copy on another system 
before you try this <grin>


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