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 documentation is not just how, but why. > > For example, why "scsictl <dev> detach"? Why not just "stop" and remove?
If you swap in an identical drive, detach/scan is not needed. If the drive you swap in is different, you need the detach/scan so that the kenrel is forced to send an INDENTIFY to the drive to get new parameters. -- Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --