[rescue] hot swap scsi

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Sun Mar 3 23:15:47 CST 2002


On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:01:34AM -0500, Brian Hechinger wrote:

>  So, is it possible on linux, netbsd, or solaris to stop traffic to a device?
> 
> DiskSuite does, and i think RAIDframe might.  don't know about the OSes by
> themselves, but a hotswap drive in a non-array config is usually rather
> useless. :)

No.  Think external disks for moving data between machines.  Think CD-Roms,
Zip drives, and scanners.

> you should not need to boot -r in solaris as long as the scsi id and the
> controller it's connected to doesn't change.

The problem was that I had previously done a boot -r without it connected.


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Joshua D. Boyd



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