>Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com said:
>>Are you sure?  I've yanked my CD-ROM drive off my NetBSD machine after
>>booting, to use on my Windows machine, many times without a problem.
>>I sometimes then bring it back and plug it in, without rebooting, to
>>read something off a CD.  No problems.  I've also done this with tape
>>drives.
>>I'm using a BusLogic BT747s, but I don't know why that would make a
>>big difference....

>I can't say that I've ever tried it with NetBSD.  I've seen both SCO UNIX
>and SunOS 4.1.3 contaminate filesystems after SCSI termination was removed
>by a scavenger.  Solaris 2.x and others just wedge.

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...

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  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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