> Generally speaking, SCA SCSI drives are hot-swap capable. Sure...but the drive bays aren't necessarily. For example, the drive bay in a SS20 probably isn't; you can't even get to it without removing the lid, so there'd've been little reason for Sun to spend the money for the signal switching hardware to make it hotswap.
> I'm not interested in fiddling with 50-pin or 68-pin with a paused machine -$ Actually, with a _paused_ machine, IME - I M limited E - it's fine. It's doing so on an active SCSI bus, one with transfers going on, that I was saying was a recipe for trouble. > The key thing in documentation is not just how, but why. > For example, why "scsictl <dev> detach"? Why not just "stop" and > remove? Personally? The reasons which occur to me offhand: Because doing that doesn't get the teardown and rebuild I mentioned upthread. Because not all the scsictl versions I have in use support stop. Beacuse I'm not always replacing it with an identical drive (or, sometimes, at all). > The idea here is to document a procedure generally. Odds are good lots of it$ Yeah - everything but the physical-layer stuff, I'd guess. (SAS, gaaaah....) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B