Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 21 Apr 1995 10:03:51 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
To:        wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Cc:        terry@cs.weber.edu, pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: [DEVFS] your opinions sought!
Message-ID:  <9504211503.AA12439@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
In-Reply-To: <199504201827.UAA01354@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Apr 20, 95 08:27:20 pm

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> [...]
> Yuck! Powering up/down for SCSI devices on the fly is generally a
> sure way to hang the buses, screw the disks etc. It *should* work,
> but my experience shows that it has something like a 20% chance to
> bomb.

My fav Sun trick:  "L1-A, (putz with scsi bus), go"

My not-so-fav BSD trick: "halt, (putz with scsi bus), hit space to reboot"

Oh, how I wish for some way to just "pause" the OS sometimes.  :-)  It's
sooooo handy and convenient to just add a tape drive by just plugging it in.

... Joe

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Joe Greco - Systems Software Engineer, UNIX/Network Hacker, Etc.   414/362-3617
Marquette Electronics, Inc. - R&D - Milwaukee, WI                jgreco@mei.com



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?9504211503.AA12439>