From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 2 10:48:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA06671 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 10:48:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA06585 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 10:47:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA09113; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 10:47:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 10:47:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Sue Blake cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI corpse OK? In-Reply-To: <19980402105122.25593@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > Yesterday my third SCSI disk gave the scream of death and vanished. So > far FreeBSD acts as if the disk had never existed and carries on happily. > > Would it be unwise to to simply remove the dead disk from fstab and leave > it plugged in? At the moment it terminates the SCSI chain so this would > be the simplest course of action, though it doesn't seem like the right > thing to do. I can't see why not. If the disk can't be seen but is terminating properly I wouldn't be worred. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message