According to Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com:
>
>Well, I can't say that I've *tried* to break it.  I always try to make
>sure the system is as idle as possible when I do it.  That way, there
>is very little to no disk activity while I have termination removed
>for a few seconds.  On the other hand, I have the feeling that there
>has been a little diddling on the disk at least once or twice while I
>had termination removed.  But I have never done it while heavy disk
>activity was in progress.  For what it's worth...
>

I chose an "idle" moment to diddle with my scsi bus on a SunOS 4.1.3
machine - except that the machine a few seconds later decided to wake
up and do something, just after I had removed the scsi terminator.
The result was a totally trashed /  - fsck was finding so much wrong I
just reloaded the whole OS because there was little point, things like
/bin/sh were toast.... :-(

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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