Re: How to hot swap an SCA SCSI disk with NetBSD

2013-10-25 Thread Erik Fair
Generally speaking, SCA SCSI drives are hot-swap capable. I'm not interested in fiddling with 50-pin or 68-pin with a paused machine - that's (as you note) a recipe for errors and filesystem corruption. The key thing in documentation is not just how, but why. For example, why scsictl dev

Re: How to hot swap an SCA SCSI disk with NetBSD

2013-10-25 Thread Manuel Bouyer
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:43:28AM -0700, Erik Fair wrote: Generally speaking, SCA SCSI drives are hot-swap capable. I'm not interested in fiddling with 50-pin or 68-pin with a paused machine - that's (as you note) a recipe for errors and filesystem corruption. The key thing in

Re: How to hot swap an SCA SCSI disk with NetBSD

2013-10-25 Thread Mouse
Generally speaking, SCA SCSI drives are hot-swap capable. Sure...but the drive bays aren't necessarily. For example, the drive bay in a SS20 probably isn't; you can't even get to it without removing the lid, so there'd've been little reason for Sun to spend the money for the signal switching