At 10:48 AM +0100 10/25/2008, Ted Treen wrote: >I have, in the 90's, seen mobo's fried due to the switching on/off >of attached SCSI devices whilst the Mac was running. I was almost >obsessive about the sequence - power up SCSI device, power up Mac, >and in reverse, power down Mac, then switch off SCSI device.
And that sequence was critically important because those flavours of SCSI are NOT hot swappable. >2005 dual 2Ghz G5 tower. >SIIG-3114-R1 4-port internal SATA card > >My basic question is do I still have to follow the old SCSI power-on >sequence, or is the G5's mobo & SIIG PCI SATA card OK if the >external drives are powered on/off whilst the G5 is running? SATA *can be* hot swappable, IF the controller and driver support it. Not all do. You need to check the specs of that particular card. >Logic tells me they should be Don't guess. Know. Guessing wrong could damage your hardware. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
