I've committed most of the 'lets pull the USB cord and see what happens'
work.
I've also committed a ton of HAMMER work that allows it to handle
catastrophic I/O errors (aka the same pulling of the USB cord) and
still be able to umount and remount the sucker.
CAM still ha
:Now that you brought it up -- what would you expect to happen if
:you did pull the power plug?
:
If you physically power down a hard drive by pulling its power plug,
and it happens to have been writing at th etime, you have a very good
chance of destroying the disk.
This happene
Matthew Dillon wrote:
...I'm not pulling the disk's power, just its USB connector :-)
-Matt
Now that you brought it up -- what would you expect to happen if
you did pull the power plug?
On Thu, July 17, 2008 3:06 am, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> Anyway, I'm seriously considering DragonFly for a new machine, which I
> think I should get in around a month. Will at least give the livecd
> a spin.
If you wait about 5 weeks, Louisa Luciani's Summer of Code project is
focused on creati
Matthew Dillon wrote:
>It's kinda fun. I'm testing it by taking an external USB2 hard drive
>and mounting it w/ HAMMER, then unplugging it in the middle of a big
>cpdup. I've found a couple of panics in CAM related to the device
>going away unexpectedly, and stuff like that, which
