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>All drivers should support disconnection/reselection to permit
>adequate bus utilization.  The gains are great - you will tie up
>the bus during disk seeks, etc. if you don't support it.

The biggest problems would be with tapes, I would imagine, during
rewinds and things like that. Some tape operations can take an
extraordinarily long time...