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From: shankar@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Subash Shankar)
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Subject: Re: REMOVABLES TRASHING HARD DISKS ???!!!
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Date: 25 Sep 90 21:36:53 GMT
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I don't know if this is relevant to the discussion or not, but my recently
bought removable has a warning that the boot block of the hard drive can be
trashed if two SCSI devices have the same ID.

Does there exist a power-up sequence which causes both devices to temporarily
have the same ID?  
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Subash Shankar             Honeywell Systems & Research Center MN65-2100
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