Re: rescan scsi

Harald Milz (hm@seneca.muc.de)
Sat, 21 Jun 1997 21:52:00 +0200


Jim Nance (jlnance@avanticorp.com) wrote:
>
> Given that people like Sun and DEC sell hot-swappable SCSI drives,
> I assume they have solved the problems somehow.

SCSI was never designed for hot-swap. Vendors of hot-swap devices have to
add some circuitry which makes sure the right lines are connected /
disconnected in the right sequence. Standard PC hardware is not designed
that way.

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