I know someone who toasted their IPC scsi bus by plugging in a
	QIC150 while the machine was up...

	Myself - I always L1-A a sparc before playing with the SCSI bus, 
	then continue after cable fiddling finished, and not had a bad
	experience yet... :)

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On Mon, 12 Feb 1996, Brett Lymn wrote:

> 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.... :-(
> 
> -- 
> Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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