On Friday 25 November 2005 17:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ben Stanley wrote: > > So SCSI is not electrically designed for hot-plugging, and most pieces > > of SCSI equipment come with dire warnings against doing so... > > Agreed. However, I don't believe for a minute that all devices connected > to a scsi chain have to be on for the chain to be valid. It's quite > acceptable to turn a device connected to the chain off. Removing the > terminator / breaking the chain however, is a definite no no.
[snip] > P.S I gave in an rebooted the server during the night. I've now recored > the major and minor numbers of the device file so that if it happens > again I'll just mknod them. > > P.P.S thanks everyone for the advice pertaining to backups. Some food > for thought there. But do yourself a favor and do lsmod to see what <scsi> modules are loaded for the tape cause you will just get "No such device" if the mknod uses unloaded drivers. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
