From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 21 08:06:28 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA09260 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 08:06:28 -0700 Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA09253 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 08:06:26 -0700 Received: by brasil.moneng.mei.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12439; Fri, 21 Apr 95 10:03:53 CDT From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <9504211503.AA12439@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: [DEVFS] your opinions sought! To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 10:03:51 -0500 (CDT) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199504201827.UAA01354@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Apr 20, 95 08:27:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 752 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > [...] > 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