Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:59:49 -0800 (PST)
From:      asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami)
To:        robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org
Cc:        sos@freebsd.dk, doconnor@gsoft.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, geoffr@is.co.za
Subject:   Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..
Message-ID:  <199903032259.OAA61888@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990303095737.27229D-100000@fledge.watson.org> (message from Robert Watson on Wed, 3 Mar 1999 10:04:59 -0500 (EST))
References:   <Pine.BSF.3.96.990303095737.27229D-100000@fledge.watson.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
 * From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org>

 * away logged in via the network performing this recovery.  Having the
 * drives automatically renumber themselves on the complete failure of one
 * drive (and it was fairly complete) would have been a disaster.  This is

Or just think "ccd".  There are people building disk servers out of
IDE drives these days, and having the ccd configured in a wrong order
could be disastrous.

I have been running a SCSI server systems for a couple of years now
and would have lost several 100GB volumes by now if the devices
weren't wired down.  (Sometimes the drives just won't show up at boot
-- a power cycle usually cures that.)

Satoshi


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199903032259.OAA61888>