Subject: Re: scsipi changes
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/15/2001 21:51:47
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:19:08PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > I can't see why you would want to detach all periph without
> > detatching the associated bus, [...]
> 
> Say I've got a second SCSI card in the machine and I am about to
> disconnect - or just have disconnected - the cable to multiple external
> devices.  It may be more convenient to just "detach 'em all" than going
> through to figure out which ones to hit.

How would the controller know that you have disconnected the cable ?
All it'll see are selection timeout errors.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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