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Re: Adding devices after boot



On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> At 03:10 PM 9/4/97 +0200, Gaal Yahas wrote:
> >Hi.
> >
> >I have an external SCSI CD-R that I don't want to be turned on when
> >not in use. How healthy is is to turn it of while the machine is on?
> >
> I'm almost positive that turning off the CD recorder will do no harm as
> long as it is not used, unless you consider the damage made to the device
> itself because of frequent power switching.
> 
> >How healthy is it to physically disconnect SCSI devices without halting
> >the machine? What about reconnecting? Possible?
> >
> Hmmm, don't know much about SCSI, but as long as the CD recorder is
> connected to an external socket on a PCI card and is not used when it is
> disconnected, then I don't think it's much a problem either.

I have an external SCSI Zip drive connected to an AHA2940 that I 
occasionally disconnect the power supply from, and then reconnect. 
Nothing bad happens as far as I can tell.

 - yba

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