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From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Connecting SCSI devices while powered up?
Message-ID: <638@taniwha.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 90 17:35:18 GMT
References: <989@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA>
Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland
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In article <989@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA> BBOLT@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA writes:
>Does anyone know is it is safe to connect and disconnect SCSI devices while
>the power on the computer and SCSI device is still on? I often have to add
>or remove hard drives and tape backup units to my system and it is annoying
>to have to reboot every time. I recently obtained the MountEm fkey and the
>docs imply that it is okay to plug a hard drive into the SCSI port with
>the computer running and then mount the drive.

I always thought it was safe to do this, and in fact recabled SCSI disks
live thousands of times until about 6 months ago when I fried the 
controller on one of my disks (an Apple Quantum 80 - luckily a friend
had a dead Quantum that had died in the earthquake so I got my disk
and data back).

Be carefull out there


	Paul Campbell

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