Oleg Drokin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello!
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 07:45:08AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 07:28, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> > > > USB by it's nature is something external to the system. Unplugging a USB
> > > > cable with a mounted drive attached should (IMHO) get the same result as
> > > > unplugging an Ethernet cable with an NFS mount in progress. This means
> > > > processes go into D state if they have outstanding writes, and for reads
> > > > they may go D state depending on mount options, and then you wait for the
> > > > device to become available again.
> > > How do you distinguish between SCSI & USB storage in Linux on fs level? ;)
> > You can have SCSI and IDE unpluggable devices too...
> IDE code is not in kernel proper yet.
> As for SCSI, it is not recommended to unplug scsi devices with PC
> powered.
what about SCA? it's 80pin SCSI (the 68 pin wide, with power and
a few ID setting signals). it's purpose is to allow hot swapping.
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