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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: DAT quick out in Indigo?
- Message-ID: <ois436g@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 20:41:42 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.122039.14293@news.uni-stuttgart.de>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <1992Aug14.122039.14293@news.uni-stuttgart.de> andreas@awstar.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Andreas Wierse) writes:
- | we have several Indigos here, but only one internal DAT. How dangerous
- | is it to remove the DAT drive out of a running machine and to insert
- | the DAT drive into a running machine? I know that the DAT drive must
- | be installed at boot time for the Indigo to realize that it has one,
- | but later You can remove it and insert it again without problems I
- | suppose.
- |
- | We once did something like that with our CD-ROM drive and there was no
- | problem, but we would like to be on the safe side :-)
-
- removing/installing SCSI devices on powered on systems can blow fuses, etc.,
- and cause assorted SCSI problems, including system crashes.
-
- There are long and religious debates about this in other newsgroups,
- and some folks get away with it (I do it myself on lab machines
- from time to time), but any damage to systems, devices, or resulting
- crashes are your problem, should it not work for you ;)
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- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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