Re: Odd behavior after installing a tape drive

2009-07-20 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
> From: Polytropon > Subject: Re: Odd behavior after installing a tape drive > To: "Tim Judd" > Cc: mahle...@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Monday, July 20, 2009, 12:22 AM > On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:43:29 -0600, > Tim Judd > wrote: > > I&

Re: Odd behavior after installing a tape drive

2009-07-19 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:43:29 -0600, Tim Judd wrote: > I'm no expert on tape drives either, but I was sure that "losing a > SCSI device" is a bad thing for SCSI -- think of it as an IDE drive. > you don't just go pulling power or data from a running, booted > computer. With SCSI, "hot plug" is usu

Re: Odd behavior after installing a tape drive

2009-07-19 Thread Tim Judd
I'm no expert on tape drives either, but I was sure that "losing a SCSI device" is a bad thing for SCSI -- think of it as an IDE drive. you don't just go pulling power or data from a running, booted computer. All the devices in a computer are on, stays on, until the system shuts down. The PTY/SCS

Odd behavior after installing a tape drive

2009-07-19 Thread mahlerrd
After installing a tape drive and SCSI card in my home system, I got some strange behavior that I think isn't directly related, but would like to get an expert opinion about. mobius# uname -a FreeBSD mobius 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Sep  5 02:34:20 CDT 2008     r...@mobius: