[560] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Errors & Unit Attention
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig A. Lemon [Admin])
Tue Aug 29 19:55:50 1995
From: "Craig A. Lemon [Admin]" <calemon@uplink.on.ca>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 12:18:01 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <199508270314.XAA00527@kf8nh.wariat.org> from "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" at Aug 26, 95 11:14:05 pm
> Try it with a PC SCSI device sometime. AHA1542s in particular will freeze
> solid - the on-board microcode crashes and you have to reset/powerdown to
> get it back. (I have had it happen.) Most other PC SCSI cards of my
> acquaintance also fail rather poorly in such a situation. (And for the
> multi-architecture folks: you can destroy an SBus SCSI card by trying to
> hot-plug devices...)
I have hot swapped Wangtek 4mm DATs, generic CD-ROMs and (idle)
IBM SCSI-2 HDs (once or twice for the HD) on a Linux 0.99.x box with
an AHA-1540CF before. It's been a while, but the system did not hang or
crash...
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