Re: How to safely remove an external SCSI device?

Cydrome Leader <presence@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Doug McIntyre <merlyn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

It hasn't been an issue in the last 10 years or so..
It was an issue in the mid to late '90s, but admins have long memories. :)

and old hardware.

Anyway, it's only a problem with sun hardware. Everthing else works fine
with either hardcoded speed/duplex or auto negotiate.


I have never had problems with auto negotiate on Sun hardware. The _only_
time I have ever encountered this problem was between an SGI O2 and what
was either a Cisco or an HP switch. This was around 1996.


--
Dr Tristram J. Scott
Energy Consultant
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